KXAN Chief Meteorologist David Yeomans has been fascinated with weather for as long as he can remember. He became a registered storm spotter with the National Weather Service at age 9, keeping official climate records from his home weather station.

The longtime Austinite attended Westlake High School and went on to study meteorology at the University of Miami. David was a published undergraduate researcher under world-renowned climate change expert Dr. Brian Soden, studying the relationship between water vapor in the high levels of the atmosphere and climate change. He returned to the University of Miami for graduate studies in meteorology in 2010, researching hurricane formation for his Masters thesis. David was a guest scientist aboard a NOAA Hurricane Hunter flight.

David holds the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist seal from the American Meteorological Society. He was awarded Best Weather Anchor by the Texas Association of Broadcasters, Best Specialty/Beat Reporting by the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and Austin Chronicle’s “Best Weathercaster”. He has received three Lone Star Emmy Awards.

David was featured in GQ’s “The Breakdown” web series discussing what Hollywood gets right and wrong with weather in movies. He also served as the weather expert in several episodes of History Channel’s “I Was There”, covering how weather played a part in historical disasters like the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.