Dave Reynolds
Meteorologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service (NWS)
San Francisco Bay Area Forecast Office
Mr. David Reynolds has held the position of Meteorologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service (NWS)
San Francisco Bay Area Forecast Office since June of 2002. Prior to assuming this position he was Chief of
Operations of the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, one of the service centers of the National Centers
of Environmental Prediction in Washington DC. His primary interest is in Quantitative Precipitation
Forecasting and in climate change impacts in California.
Mr. Reynolds received a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis in 1971, and a
M.S. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University (CSU) in 1973. He was accepted into the
Doctoral Program at CSU in 1982 and completed a year of post-graduate studies. Mr. Reynolds was a
Research Assistant Professor at CSU from 1973 to 1980, Chief of the Alaska Avalanche and Fire Weather
Forecast Center from 1980 to 1981, a team leader with what is now the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
from 1981 to 1983. He was Site Director of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Sierra Cooperative Pilot
Project from 1983 until 1988. This cloud seeding research program studied the feasibility of augmenting the
snow pack in the central Sierra Nevada. Based on this research, Mr. Reynolds worked for California’s
Department of Water Resources from 1988 until 1994 to design, implement, and conduct a snow
augmentation program for the Feather River above Oroville Reservoir in northern California.
He is a member of the American Meteorological Society, served as Chairman of the AMS Committee on
Weather Modification, and is currently on the Committee on Mountain Meteorology. Mr. Reynolds received
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Administrator Award and has been the recipient of a
Department of Commerce group Gold Medal — the Department’s highest honorary award — in 1999 for HPCs
excellent rainfall forecasts associated with Hurricane Floyd. He also received two NOAA group Bronze
Medals associated with his participation in the restructuring of the NWS’s quantitative precipitation
forecasting process.
