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KOAT's new chief meteorologist has a familiar face
Byron Morton
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Byron Morton said he developed a passion for weather as a tornado chaser in his native Oklahoma years before he became a meteorologist for KOAT Action 7 News in 2001.
KOAT on Monday named Morton as the station’s chief meteorologist to fill the shoes of Joe Diaz, who retired from the post in May after 38 years at the Albuquerque station.
Morton will lead weather for KOAT’s afternoon and evening broadcasts, the station announced.
Morton said he plans to give KOAT weather a stronger digital presence to better compete with other online sources.
“You’ve got to be everywhere all the time,” Morton said Monday. KOAT needs to be “something that people can more consistently rely on and count on for their weather, from their phone, from their digital apps and everything else.”
Morton began as KOAT’s weekend meteorologist in December 2001. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Geosciences, Morton is a certified broadcast meteorologist with the American Meteorological Society.
