Tom Churchill

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Tom Churchill (born March 4, 1961) is a native of Dubuque, Iowa, where he started in radio as on-air weatherman at WDBQ-AM Radio at the age of 13 in August 1974.

Churchill's forecasting accuracy as a teenager was first profiled in the National Enquirer in 1974 leading to worldwide publicity over the next 10 years with articles written in People Magazine, National Geographic and hundreds of other newspapers and magazines in nearly every country on the planet. During this time Churchill worked for Channel 10 Television in Dubuque for several years as well as making guest appearances and regular on-air weathercasting appearances on KRON-TV in San Francisco, WMT-TV in Cedar Rapids, KWWL-TV in Waterloo plus national networks PBS, NBC, CBS, and ABC from 1974–1983, with regular appearances on on Good Morning America, and the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. Several appearances on the television game show The $128,000 Question earned Churchill $32,000 in 1978.

In 1979, Churchill formed his first weather forecasting company providing live weathercasts to radio stations across the United States. He invented the Digital Weatherman system in the late-1980s to extend his weather forecasting capabilities to hundreds of radio stations through the use of computer technology. Tom Churchill's own weather forecasts are still heard today on hundreds of radio stations from Pago Pago, in American Samoa to Juneau, Alaska, to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean every hour. To date over 115 million weather broadcasts, or one every 6.5 seconds, have been aired by this technology, the only of its kind in existence.

During the 1980s, Churchill provided weather forecasting services to a number of Hollywood movie productions filmed in and around the Dubuque area including George S. Blackwell's "Take This Job and Shove It (film)". For his efforts Churchill received kudos from the production team in industry publications such as Variety (magazine). This movie as released originally included a scene inserted by the producer after Churchill requested a screen credit for his services. As the lead character, played by actor Robert Hays, showers in his hotel room aN "English" Bulldog leaps into the shower stall with him, brought by his girlfriend, played by Barbara Hershey, on a surprise visit. Hays asks his girlfriend why she is there, and why she brought "what's-his-name" with her. To which Hershey responds "Oh, you never remember Churchill's name."

Tom Churchill is profiled as a biographee in numerous Marquis Who's Who references from Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Entertainment to Who's Who in America. Churchill moved to the Caribbean in 2001 at the age of 39 to write broadcast software, where he currently resides with his wife, Alba and their three children.