Roy Leep

Who is Roy Leep?

Roy Leep was a longtime meteorologist with television station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. He graduated with a degree in meteorology from Florida State University in the mid-1950s. However, there are questions regarding whether he truly earned this degree at all. They arose after he signed the Leipzig Declaration, a document often used to refute those who agree with many scientists' conclusions that anthropogenic climate change is a fact.

Leep joined WTVT's weather department in August 1957, was granted the seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society in 1958, became the chief meteorologist for the station in 1959 and retired in 1997. In 1959, Leep's team installed Florida's first radar unit used exclusively by a TV station, and he is considered a pioneer in weather forecasting. His "Radar Weather Eye" remained the only radar used by a Florida television station for ten years. His weather department was used as a model for hundreds of television stations all over the country looking to begin or modernize their weather departments.