Education
Leonard earned his Bachelor of Surgery in Meteorology from the City College of New York in 1970 and an Master of Surgery in Meteorology from New York University.
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Foreign 25 years, Leonard was previously best known as a meteorologist at Boston"s WHDH-television (Channel 7). He began his career as a meteorologist for Universal Weather, Incorporated. preparing forecasts for aviation and industry. He also taped reports for radio stations in New York and Connecticut as well as teaching at New York University.
He worked as chief meteorologist for WPRI-television in Providence, Rhode Island for three years.
Leonard first came to Boston television in May 1977 at Channel 7, then known as WNAC-television Foreign the first few years, he was a staff meteorologist. By the time the station was sold to New England Television and became WNEV-television in 1982 (the same ownership would rename it again to WHDH in 1990), Leonard became chief meteorologist, the role he would hold there for the next 20 years.
During his long tenure at Channel 7, Leonard has been named "Best Meteorologist" by Boston Magazine in 1984, "86, "88, and "92. Leonard was also a meteorologist for radio station WROR-FM in 1980.
He left WHDH-television in April 2002 and joined WCVB-television in that same year.
In late 2010, he contributed to the book, Extreme New England Weather, with his story of the Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978. Leonard is an avid outdoorsman and lecturer at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston Medical Center. He"s been called the dean of Boston meteorologists.
Achievements
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1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992 "Best Meteorologist" by Boston Magazine 1999 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society 1999 winner of the Award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist from the American Meteorological Society 2003 Silver Circle Award from NATSNE (National Academy of Arts and Sciences New England Chapter) for more than twenty-five years of broadcast excellence Two New England Emmy Awards for outstanding achievement in television weathercasting.
Membership
He is a charter member of the National Weather Association.
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