Justin Thompson-Gee, Meteorologist
After working the weekend shift for four years Justin was promoted to the morning show in 2019. He started at CBS 58 as a freelance meteorologist in 2015 and was promoted to weekends a few months later. Justin looks forward to getting southeast Wisconsin ready for their day when they wake up. Since arriving in Wisconsin he has forecasted and reported on tornado outbreaks, record flooding, extreme temperature swings and late spring snow storms.
Justin has spent all of his adult life in the Midwest, but he actually grew up in New York. Living in the Northeast Justin had a chance to experience it all: thunderstorms, big winter nor’easters and the occasional threat of a tropical storm. Unlike some meteorologists, Justin wasn’t a weather nerd his whole life. Sports, acting and singing took up most of his childhood and it wasn’t until high school that he decided to pursue his passion of weather.
After moving to the Midwest, Justin received his BS in Meteorology from Valparaiso University in northern Indiana. While at Valpo Justin took an interest in storm chasing and logged over 18,000 miles chasing all throughout the Plains states. After graduation, Justin moved to Minnesota where he worked for KAAL-TV in Rochester, MN forecasting for southeastern Minnesota and northern Iowa. In 2017 Justin was awarded the CBM (Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) from the American Meteorological Society.
Following Minnesota, Justin married his storm chasing partner Stephanie and checked another Midwest state of his list moving to Wisconsin. In October 2018 Justin and Stephanie welcomed their first child Leah. When not taking advantage of Milwaukee or forecasting “cooler by the lake”, Justin loves relaxing with family including his Wisconsin Humane Society adopted dachshund Peeta, enjoying a good movie or book, and singing on his church's worship team.
Since his arrival in Brew City Justin has loved touring the new breweries that pop up every month, has become an aficionado of Summerfest and loves cheering on the Brewers, Bucks and Packers.
P.S. The Thompson-Gee in Justin's name comes from a combination of his parent's last names. When Justin's parents married they hyphenated their last names forming Thompson-Gee. The Thompson comes from his mother's side and the Gee from Justin's dad.
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Articles by Justin Thompson-Gee
- Coldest morning of the season with a freeze in some hometowns
- Chilly first full week of fall with a slight warm up coming
- Start to fall comes with a blast of chilly temps
- Last round of summer warmth and humidity before autumn begins
- Cluster of storms more possible Tuesday morning
- Isolated rain chance Sunday during a last round of summer warmth and humidity
- Rain check after our flooding weekend rain
- Wisconsin fall color map launches for 2022 season
- Isolated showers possible for Tuesday
- Cool Labor Day, then slowly warming
- Meteorological summer ends as the 13th warmest on record and slightly below-average on rain
- A warm August comes to an end with dropping temps looming in September
- Humidity drop is here with above-average temperatures
- Mid-Morning Update: Strong storms entering Illinois moving towards Wisconsin
- Few temp swings with a warmer trend setting up
- Rain check after this weekend's soaking rain
- Soaking rain arrives over the weekend
- Rain chances increasing going into the weekend
- Slight warming after the coldest weekend in two months
- Attention allergy sufferers: Ragweed season is here
- Rainfall check with more chances on the way
- Weekly rain chances after a weekend of severe storms
- Continued heat gives way to severe storms this weekend
- Heat continues Tuesday with an isolated strong storm
- Heat and humidity have returned
- Isolated storm chances continue for a few more days
- Briefly hot and humid with a chance for strong storms
- Flooding rains Tuesday with more rain chances on the way
- Flash Flood Warning for Milwaukee and Waukesha counties
- June with 6 days above 90° goes down as the 11th warmest on record
- Heat and wind return for Thursday
- Early evening update: Isolated strong storms possible Tuesday evening
- Up and down temps this week with low humidity
- Hottest temps in a decade
- Heat advisory issued for all of southeast Wisconsin with feels like temps above 100
- Near record heat arrives Monday and Tuesday
- Evening Update: Isolated storms remain possible
- Rain chances return for the weekend
- Every other day rain chances this week
- Soggy start to a new work week
- Warm and wet meteorological spring comes to an end
- Eleventh warmest May on record comes to an end as we look ahead to June
- 8:00 PM Update: Severe weather threat is over
- Warm and windy for Memorial Day
- Briefly warm and humid Thursday with another round of rain and storms
- On track for a soggy middle of the week
- Lake breeze returns with rain likely during the middle of the week
- Afternoon Update: Isolated Showers and storms Friday and again Saturday
- Midday Update: Few passing showers early this afternoon, but severe storms stay well west
- Best rain in two weeks arrives Tuesday night
- Up and down temperatures for the second half of May
- 8:30 PM Update: Storms are looking less organized
- Wild temperature swings on Wednesday lead to another hot and humid Thursday
- Tornado watch has been dropped for most of the area. Storms are slow to develop.
- Surge of warmth this week with a return of humidity
- Precipitation surplus for the first time in 2022
- Soggy Tuesday brings us above-average on rainfall for the year
- Cool and soggy April comes to an end as we look into May
- Showers and strong thunderstorms roll in Saturday
- Frost and freeze conditions continue through the end of April
- Warmest weekend since October gives way to cooler air
- Up and down temps with persistent wind and a return of rain the rest of the week
- Warming up this week with rain returning (no snow)
- Wind slowly comes down for a cool holiday weekend
- Mid Afternoon Update: Rain, storms, and a strong cold front closing in on southeast Wisconsin
- Rain chances return with a threat for strong to severe storms
- Warming up to start the week with the chance for strong to severe storms
- One last round of gloom, rain and snow before a (mostly) dry weekend
- Totaling another soaking rain with more showers returning Wednesday afternoon
- Another round of rain rolls in Tuesday evening
- Another soggy week on the way
- March ends above-average on precipitation and temperature
- Midday Update: Steady snow is done, but a few stray snow showers are possible through the afternoon
- Afternoon Update: Today's rain changes to wet snow for the Thursday morning commute
- Showers to storms to snow: Soggy weather starts Tuesday evening
- Gloom continues with more light rain/snow showers
- More scattered rain Wednesday mixing with some snow Thursday
- Soggy Tuesday and Wednesday with snow mixing in Thursday
- Mostly rain with a little slushy snow north
- Mid Afternoon Update: Light showers this afternoon with Friday's system trending more towards rain