Matt Leach is an award-winning weather forecaster and university professor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. For more than a decade his love of weather, communication, and education has resonated with colleagues, students and viewers at home and abroad, from the soggy valleys of the Pacific Northwest to the vast deserts of Southwest Africa.

His clear and unique reporting style has won him several local and regional accolades, including an Emmy, an Associated Press award for “Outstanding Weather Operation,” and “Best Weathercast” in the state from the Indiana Broadcasters Association.