About
Dr. Matthew Bunkers believes that his clients deserve to have accurate and reliable weather information. He is a certified consulting meteorologist with over 33 years of weather analysis and forecasting experience (most with NOAA/NWS). Matthew's specialties include forensic meteorology, heavy rain and flooding, high winds, fog, severe storms, hail, tornadoes, winter weather, heavy snow, slip and falls, icing, fire weather, weather-related accidents, agriculture weather, lightning verification, radar, and satellite. He has been retained and/or used as a consultant for 175+ cases since 2017. Refer to https://npweather.com
Dr. Bunkers has worked on cases involving (i) analyses of tornado/hail/wind (including derecho) damage to businesses, crops, people, farm property (e.g., barns, grain bins, and irrigation systems), and housing units for insurance-related claims/lawsuits, (ii) slip and falls related to snowfall, icing, refreezing, and freezing drizzle, (iii) climate-, severe-, and winter-weather analyses for a mining operation, preventative planting insurance claim, crop spraying, livestock operations, and construction delays due to adverse weather days, (iv) rainfall recurrence interval analyses for flooding of homes and flash-flood related damages to businesses and trains/railroad tracks, (v) snowfall and rainfall analyses for insurance protection claims for recreational events, (vi) cloud cover, moonlight, rainfall, fog, icing, snow, and wind analyses for automobile and semi-truck accidents, (vii) windstorm, drought, lightning, and satellite analyses for wildfires and dust storms, (viii) fire-weather observations and research papers for a fellow consulting meteorologist, (ix) presentations on flash flooding, storm observing, photography, and safety, (x) an air-quality and weather-related assessment, (xi) a technical review of a weather book, (xii) a general radar/hail project, and, (xiii) consulting advice for a colleague. His clients include lawyers and industries of agriculture, construction, insurance, mining, and power generation.