Weather Expert Witness: Legal Experts AI Names the Top 5 in Practice
Legal Experts AI has released its ranking of leading weather expert witnesses who turn complex atmospheric data into
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Legal Experts AI has released its ranking of leading weather expert witnesses who turn complex atmospheric data into clear, credible courtroom testimony.
New York, United States (PRUnderground) August 26th, 2026
Legal Experts AI, an online marketplace pairing attorneys and clients with vetted legal professionals, today announced its list of the top weather expert witnesses in practice. The ranking spotlights specialists whose command of meteorological records, climate modeling, and forensic storm analysis has shaped outcomes in insurance disputes, property damage claims, personal injury suits, and climate liability litigation.
Cases involving weather rarely come down to a simple record of the forecast. A qualified expert witness has to reconstruct exactly what conditions existed at a precise time and place, tie those conditions to the damage or injury at issue, and walk a jury through the science without losing them. In building this list, Legal Experts AI looked at each candidate’s courtroom track record, depth of experience with meteorological and climate datasets, professional standing, and, critically, their ability to hold up under cross-examination.
2026 Top 5 Weather Expert Witnesses by Legal Experts AI
1. John H. Bryant — Weather and Climate Consulting, LLC
John Bryant is a federal court-qualified forensic meteorologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in meteorology and decades of experience providing scientifically rigorous weather analysis for legal cases.
Certified by the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association, he also holds EPA Method 9 and 22 certifications, enabling specialized wildfire reconstruction. His reports have been accepted in federal court, and his expert testimony has contributed to multi-million-dollar settlements for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Specializing in slip-and-fall incidents, motor vehicle accidents, and wind damage, Mr. Bryant delivers precise, courtroom-ready evidence.
For more on his background and availability, visit John’s profile on Legal Experts AI.
Specialty: Expert Witness Financing, Slip, Trip & Fall, Weather & Meteorology, Wrongful Death
Location: Memphis, TN
2. Christopher C. Hennon, Ph.D., CCM — Hennon Weather Services
A Certified Consulting Meteorologist with more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Christopher C. Hennon provides forensic meteorology and weather reconstruction services for civil and criminal matters. His work includes hurricane wind analysis, severe weather, historical weather reconstruction, radar interpretation, flooding, lightning, icing conditions, and other weather-related questions relevant to litigation.
Dr. Hennon has provided expert reports, depositions, and testimony in cases involving issues such as hurricane wind speeds, rainfall, temperature reconstruction, civil twilight, and slip-and-fall incidents involving ice. Before becoming a full-time consulting meteorologist, he worked as an applied research scientist at the National Hurricane Center and later spent nearly two decades as a professor of atmospheric science. He is an American Meteorological Society Certified Consulting Meteorologist and has published more than 35 professional papers and conference publications.
Specialty: Forensic Meteorology, Weather Reconstruction, Hurricanes, Severe Weather & Weather-Related Litigation
Location: Clyde, NC
3. James Caron, CCM — Caron Weather Consultancy
James Caron brings more than 23 years of meteorological experience to his forensic practice, having built his career across military aviation weather support with the U.S. Air Force and nearly 14 years as Chief Global Meteorologist for Macquarie Bank.
He now serves as Director of North America Weather Operations at Atmospheric G2, providing nationwide litigation support on severe storms, wind, hail, lightning, wildfire, flooding, and tropical cyclone events, and has been retained as an expert on 65 matters to date.
Specialty: Severe Storm and Catastrophe Litigation, Forensic Weather Reconstruction, Insurance Disputes
Location: Sugar Land, TX
4. Todd Morris, CCM — Global Weather and Climate Consulting LLC
Todd Morris spent 34.5 years with the National Weather Service before founding his own forensic and litigation-support consultancy in 2013. He has since been retained on approximately 92 matters spanning accident reconstruction, aviation, property and casualty insurance, and premises liability, and has authored detailed forensic reports on flooding, high-wind events, and monsoon storms across California and Arizona.
Specialty: Meteorology and Climatology, Property and Casualty Insurance, Accident Reconstruction
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
5. Mark McGinnis — Fair Skies Consulting, LLC
Mark McGinnis is one of a small number of meteorologists to hold both the Certified Consulting Meteorologist and Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designations from the American Meteorological Society. With more than 30 years spent forecasting and explaining severe weather, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and derechos to broadcast audiences, he has spent the last decade applying that same clarity to expert reports covering hail damage, wind damage, flooding, and roof collapses. He continues to appear part-time as a fill-in meteorologist on Chicago’s WLS-TV ABC 7.
Specialty: Severe Weather Analysis, Property Damage Litigation, Broadcast Meteorology
Location: Waukesha, WI
Attorneys building a case around a weather or climate event can browse these profiles and others directly through Legal Experts AI’s website.
Methodology
Legal Experts AI’s team screened candidates against a consistent set of criteria: demonstrated expertise across meteorology, climatology, and forensic weather reconstruction; a documented history of testimony; and evidence, drawn from public records, case files, and professional publications, that they can make complex atmospheric science land with a jury.
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