Paul Kocin (born May 6, 1955) is an American meteorologist and winter weather expert.
After graduation, he briefly worked for NASA as a contractor then was hired by the US National Weather Service at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in 1989.
Kocin worked as an on-air personality with The Weather Channel from 1998 to 2006.
He returned to NOAA afterward, first as a surface weather analyst and then to the medium range desk, forecasting weather for Alaska up to eight days in advance.
[1] Along with Louis Uccellini, Kocin developed the Northeast snowfall impact scale, which categorizes significant Northeastern United States snowstorms from "notable" to "extreme".