Our Utah Climate Center weather forecasters on Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published April 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM MDT

Jon Meyer, Abby Bushman, and Casey Olson from the Utah Climate Center join us on this episode. We’ll ask them to take us behind the scenes of the weather forecasts you hear on UPR. How do you make a forecast as accurate as possible? Define climate vs. meteorology. Why is the Utah Climate Center doing weather forecasts? Why did you go into this field? Hear their answers on this episode.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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