About Howard

Local Weather Expert

Howard began his weather interest as a young boy of 10 years with a thirst for weather answers that never waned. Along the way he befriended many in the know. The late Don Marcellin was a grass roots pioneer forecaster in the Owens Valley. Don was very inspirational in Howard‘s weather career, as were several lead forecasters at WSFO Reno, Nevada.

Retired Lead forecasters Tom Cylke and the Late Doug Armstrong, along with several others kindly answered Howard’s many tough questions, including explaining important theories and walking through the teachings underlying the regular weather guidance reports. Howard reads many weather texts and scientific journals, and he keeps up to date on some of the cutting edge stuff in  inter-seasonal work.

As a 40 year resident of Mammoth Lakes, Howard has amassed detailed records of local conditions and experience with the unique–and varied–conditions of the Eastern Sierra. Howard also provided Air Quality Counseling for the Town of Mammoth Lakes past years.

His real-time weather mammothweather.com is the only true maintained real-time weather site in Mammoth today!

Real Estate Expert

When he’s not studying the weather, you can find Howard at Coldwell Banker Mammoth Real Estate. Howard has won numerous awards for his work, including the International President’s Elite for several years now. He is currently in the top 1% of the Coldwell Banker family. He owes his real estate success to staying put for 35 years in the real estate business in Mammoth Lakes, a strong work ethic, and a devotion to both service and loyalty for his clients. In doing more and more business over the years, Howard has created a team of assistants that are of the highest caliber.  He enjoys assisting buyers and sellers here,  in the most beautiful place in all of California!

Howard has frequented Mammoth since 1970 and moved here permanently in 1978. He remembers back when the only market in Mammoth was Busters, not too far from where Coldwell Banker Mammoth Real Estate is today!

He often thinks about what would have happened if Dave McCoy never surveyed water and snow for DWP in this area. Would there be a Mammoth like what we have today? Would we have this wonderful place to raise our families?

Howard‘s family was home grown from the beginning in Mammoth Lakes. Wife Donna is a nurse at Mammoth Hospital. Son Clifford is a 5 year resident at Stanford in the Plastics program. Daughter Natalie is a Double Bruin with a Masters Degree and currently a practicing Clinical Social Worker at Harbor UCLA. Both son and daughter were born here and went through the Mammoth Lakes school system.

2017 is another special year for Howard, as come October, he will be celebrating 37 years of broadcasting “Good Day Eastern Sierra” on KMMT and KIBS. In that he will be turning 67 this year, More than ½ his life has been devoted to serving the Eastern Sierra with local weather reports. For Howard, this is a dream come true!