NBC33 (WVLA-TV) and Fox44 (WGMB-TV) are proud to welcome meteorologist Brett Cummins to the NBC 33 News and Fox News Baton Rouge news teams as Chief Meteorologist. Cummins can be seen weeknights on NBC 33 News at 5, 6, & 10, as well as Fox News Baton Rouge at 9pm.

First seen on-air locally during the NBC33 News and Fox News Baton Rouge non-stop coverage of Hurricane Gustav, Cummins’ first assignment was to provide the viewers of Baton Rouge with an aerial view, via helicopter, of the contra-flow from New Orleans, in the hours preceding the storm. As the storm made landfall, he filed reports from Terrebonne Parish.

“Brett is a tremendous talent and will be a great asset to the station and the Baton Rouge community. We are extremely pleased to have him head up our weather team,” said News Director Jeff Hamburger. “His ability to explain the weather in viewer-friendly terms along with his familiarity with our technically advanced weather system (Storm Tracker 33) will help take our newscast to a higher level.”

Cummins comes to Baton Rouge from KARK-TV, the NBC affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he spent seven years as Chief Meteorologist. He has also worked as a meteorologist at several stations in Mississippi; WDAM-TV in Hattiesburg, WXXV-TV in Gulfport and WTOK-TV in Meridian. Brett also served as assistant clerk of meteorology at the Naval Oceanographic Office in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi .

Born and raised in Waynesboro, Mississippi, Cummins is a graduate of the meteorology program at Mississippi State University and holds a bachelors degree in geosciences. While in college, he received a prestigious industrial/undergraduate scholarship from the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He holds seals of approval from the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society.

Says Cummins, “at the age of eight, it just hit me that this was what I wanted to do with my life. Severe weather was the ‘hook and line,’ but the F4 tornado in Glade, Mississippi, just 20 miles from my house, was the ‘sinker.’ I’m delighted to make Baton Rouge my home and I’m looking forward to making NBC 33 News and Fox News Baton Rouge the first place you turn for weather.”