Harvey Leonard is a former chief meteorologist on WCVB-TV Channel 5 in Boston, Massachusetts. For 25 years, Leonard was previously best known as a meteorologist at Boston's WHDH-TV (Channel 7).
He began his career as a meteorologist for Universal Weather, Inc. preparing forecasts for aviation and industry.[3] He also taped reports for radio stations in New York and Connecticut as well as teaching at New York University.[4]
Leonard first came to Boston TV in May 1977 at Channel 7, then known as WNAC-TV. For the first few years, he was a staff meteorologist. By the time the station was sold to New England Television and became WNEV-TV in 1982 (the same ownership would rename it again to WHDH in 1990), Leonard became chief meteorologist, the role he would hold there for the next 20 years. During his long tenure at Channel 7, Leonard has been named "Best Meteorologist" by Boston Magazine in 1984, '86, '88, and '92. Leonard was also a meteorologist for radio station WROR-FM in 1980.
He left WHDH-TV in April 2002 and joined WCVB-TV that same year.[3] After the retirement of then-chief meteorologist Dick Albert in 2009, Leonard was once again promoted to chief meteorologist, this time at WCVB. He retired from WCVB on May 25, 2022.
1999 winner of the Award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist from the American Meteorological Society
2003 Silver Circle Award from NATSNE (National Academy of Arts and Sciences New England Chapter) for more than twenty-five years of broadcast excellence
Judge, Josh; et al. Extreme New England Weather, Greenfield, New Hampshire : SciArt Media, 1st Edition, November 6, 2010. ISBN978-0982351291 (Harvey Leonard was one of the contributors to the book)
^ ab"NWA SPONSORS SKYFEST AT THE BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY",NATIONAL WEATHER ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER, No. 99-4,5 April–May 1999. " ... Harvey Leonard Moskowitz from WHDH-TV7 (another charter NWA member) closed out the program ..."
^"Approval of Fellows", Minutes of the meeting of the AMS Council, American Meteorological Society, 30 September and 1 October 1999, Boston, Massachusetts