Providing you with one stop, one click access to weather forecasts, road condition reports, and outdoor recreation information. Rogueweather is the #1 source of accurate, reliable information on weather, wildland fires, road conditions, outdoor recreation, and wolves in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The goal is to inform, educate, and to entertain.
RogueWeather.com is based in Medford, Oregon. Greg Roberts is the forecaster. Greg has over 40 years of weather forecasting experience, specializing in severe weather events. What started as childhood wonder, has blossomed into a life spent in passionate pursuit of learning about and understanding weather, and the natural world around us.
Greg has received training from a variety of sources, including the University of Oklahoma, and the National Weather Service. Greg continues to volunteer as a Skywarn weather observer for the National Weather Service. This has led to many hours out in the field storm chasing and getting up close with the storms he loves.
Greg also served as a wildland and municipal fire fighter and EMT for almost 20 years in Central and Southern Oregon. While a fire fighter he earned many certifications including Engine Company Officer for municipal departments, and many leadership certifications including Incident Commander for wildland fires. He earned certification from the state of Oregon as an Urban Interface Fire Specialist. His weather knowledge was useful on wildland fires he worked in Oregon and Northern California. Greg still consults with fire departments, and also private wildland fire fighting companies. He holds certifications in a number of Search and Rescue classifications. He consults with elected officials in Oregon and California with his knowledge on wildland fires and other natural resource issues.
Greg was a charter member of, and the original Chairman of the Jackson County Oregon Wolf Committee. This is a citizens advisory committee that helps Jackson County administer a program to compensate livestock owners for losses due to wolf predation, and to help Wildlife Services secure funding to resolve conflicts with wolves. Greg served on the committe for 8 years. Greg has been praised by U. S. Fish and Wildlife personnel as having some of the deepest knowledge of wolves they have seen in a lay person.
His love of the outdoors and outdoor recreation has been a big part of his life since he was just a toddler. He is an avid outdoorsman with a keen knowledge of the world around us. He enjoys camping, hiking, fishing, hunting......and outings looking for Bigfoot and wolves. Greg has worked in the world of outdoor recreation including for Jackson County Parks, and also for Mt. Bachelor Ski Area in Central Oregon. He is a former ski racer and raced throughout the Western US and Canada competing in slalom, giant slalom, and super giant slalom.
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