Bryan Norcross grew up on the coast of Central Florida while his and his friends’ fathers were working to put men on the moon. He was a student of science and broadcasting.

Part-time disk-jockey work after high school and through college included his first hurricane broadcast, an advisory for Hurricane Camille. It was August 16, 1969. On that Saturday, Hurricane Warnings were issued for the Florida Panhandle.

After TV work as an engineer and director at WQXI-TV/WXIA in Atlanta and director and Sr. News Producer at KBTV in Denver, in 1979, he was running the news department at WLKY, the ABC affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky. The talented and popular weathercaster at the station, Angie Humphries, decided to leave and pursue a career in country music. Bryan decided that the news department needed a trained meteorologist to replace her, and he started a search.

While the search was successful, it also resulted in a new direction for him. Florida State’s Meteorology and Communications Schools got together to create the university’s first broadcast meteorology program, merging meteorology and broadcasting into a Master's Degree program for Bryan. This led to a life-long study of and interest in weather and emergency communications.

CNN was starting up just as Bryan graduated, and he became the first weekend weathercaster on that network in 1980. After weather jobs in San Francisco at the ABC giant KGO-TV and back at WXIA in Atlanta, he was on television in Miami for 25 years on WPLG, WTVJ, and WFOR. From 1996 to 1999, he was anchor of the 5:30 p.m. news on WFOR, in addition to being Director of Meteorology for the station.

Bryan became nationally known as the man who “talked South Florida through” Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which led to his work on NBC and as the CBS News Hurricane Analyst from 1996 to 2008.

In appreciation for his work before, during, and after Hurricane Andrew, Bryan was publicly recognized with designations of Bryan Norcross Days in Miami, Miami Beach, and Fort Lauderdale, among other cities. In addition, he’s the recipient of an Emmy Award from the southeast chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the DuPont and Peabody awards, among many other honors.

In 2017, Bryan published a memoire detailing his experience before during and after Hurricane Andrew called: My Hurricane Andrew Story: The story behind the preparation, the terror, the resilience, and the renowned TV coverage of the Great Hurricane of 1992. The book is available on Amazon.

After working on emergency management communications as Founder and CEO of America’s Emergency Network, Bryan joined The Weather Channel as Senior Hurricane Specialist in 2010.

In 2018, Bryan returned to WPLG in Miami as Hurricane Specialist, covering hurricanes and tropical storms that threatened South Florida.

In 2022, Bryan joined the new streaming service, Fox Weather, as Hurricane Specialist.

Bryan was profiled in the New York Times following his long hours of coverage of Hurricane Sandy on The Weather Channel, plus his blog and Facebook posts that provided detailed analysis of the storm threat and criticism of the government’s communications systems. The Times article quotes a Twitter post that described Bryan as “the most trusted hurricane human on the planet.”

Bryan continues to post his thoughts and insights on Facebook, his own site HurricaneIntel.com, and on social media during hurricane season.

Bryan is a longtime resident of South Florida.