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Al Roker

Al Roker (Albert Lincoln Roker Jr.) is an American weather presenter, television host, and author who has been the weather anchor of NBC's TODAY since 1996.

Alex Beresford

Alex Beresford, also known as Alexander Beresford, is a British weather presenter for ITV Weather and Good Morning Britain who challenged Piers Morgan live on air in 2021.

Carol Kirkwood

Carol Kirkwood, born Carol Anne MacKellaig in 1962, is a Scottish broadcaster who presented the weather on BBC Breakfast from 2010 until retiring in 2026 after 28 years at the BBC.

Charles L. Hosler Jr.

Charles L. Hosler Jr. (1924–2023) was an American meteorologist at Penn State who led its College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and created an early TV weather show.

Christiane Jablonowski

Christiane Jablonowski is a University of Michigan professor of climate and space sciences who works on dynamical cores of atmospheric models and won a PECASE award.

Dylan Dreyer

Dylan Dreyer, full name Dylan Marie Dreyer, is an American television meteorologist with NBC News who joined Weekend Today in 2012 and co-hosts the 3rd Hour of Today.

Frankie MacDonald

Frankie MacDonald is a Canadian amateur weather forecaster and YouTube personality from Sydney, Nova Scotia, known for his enthusiastic storm warnings and the catchphrase "Be Prepared!"

Fred Talbot

Fred Talbot (Frederick Wilson Talbot) is a British former TV weather presenter, best known for forecasts from a floating map in Liverpool's Albert Dock on ITV's This Morning.

Ginger Zee

Ginger Zee, also known as Ginger Renee Colonomos, is an American broadcast meteorologist who joined ABC News in 2011 and became "Good Morning America's" chief meteorologist in 2013.

Jackie Guerrido

Jackie Guerrido, born in 1972, is a Puerto Rican television weather presenter and radio host best known as the weather anchor of Univision's Primer Impacto.

Janice Dean

Janice Dean is a Canadian-born television meteorologist who joined Fox News in 2004 as its first official weather forecaster, later becoming senior meteorologist on Fox & Friends.

Jim Cantore

Jim Cantore is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, which he joined in 1986, known for field coverage of hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards including Hurricane Katrina.

Laura Slivinski

Laura Slivinski is an American applied mathematician at NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for co-leading the 20th Century Reanalysis version 3 weather reconstruction.

Laura Tobin

Laura Tobin is an English broadcast meteorologist who trained with the Met Office and has presented the weather on ITV's Good Morning Britain since 2014.

Louise Lear

Louise Lear is a British broadcast weather presenter who has presented BBC forecasts since 1998, appearing on BBC Breakfast, BBC News at Six, Radio 5 Live, and Countryfile.

Lucy Verasamy

Lucy Verasamy, born in 1980, is a British meteorologist and weather presenter who has fronted ITV's national forecasts since 2012, after five years at Sky News.

Meteorologist

A meteorologist, also known as a weather forecaster, is a physical scientist who observes, studies, or forecasts the weather, typically holding a degree in meteorology or a related physical science.

Piers Corbyn

Piers Corbyn (born 1947) is a British weather forecaster and astrophysicist who founded WeatherAction, a London company selling long-range forecasts based on solar activity and the Moon.

Red sky at morning

"Red sky at morning" is the warning half of the weather proverb "Red sky at night, sailors' delight", a forecasting rule of thumb with a real basis.

Reed Timmer

Reed Timmer is an American extreme meteorologist and storm chaser known for driving armored vehicles into tornadoes and starring in the Discovery Channel series Storm Chasers.

Sam Champion

Sam Champion, also known as Samuel James Champion, is an American television weather presenter best known as ABC's Good Morning America weather anchor from 2006 to 2013.

Stephanie Abrams

Stephanie Abrams, born 1978, is an American television meteorologist from Wellington, Florida, who joined The Weather Channel in 2003 and co-hosts AMHQ and the weekend climate show Pattrn.

Storm Chasers (TV series)

Storm Chasers is an American documentary reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2007, following storm chase teams as they intercepted tornadoes in Tornado Alley.

Storm chasing

Storm chasing is the pursuit of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes by vehicle, usually for observation, photography, science, or media coverage, focused on the central United States in spring.

Tim Samaras

Tim Samaras (1957–2013) was an American engineer and storm chaser who placed instrumented probes inside tornadoes; he died in the 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado.

Tom Skilling

Tom Skilling is an American broadcast meteorologist who was WGN-TV's chief meteorologist in Chicago from 1978 to 2024, also known for the Chicago Tribune weather page and Fermilab tornado seminars.

Tomasz Schafernaker

Tomasz Schafernaker is a Polish-British meteorologist and BBC weather presenter, born in Gdańsk in 1979, and the UK's favorite weather presenter in a 2017 poll.

Weather presenting

Weather presenting is the broadcast craft of delivering weather information on radio or television, combining newscaster delivery skills with interpretation of meteorological data, a field credentialed by the American Meteorological Society.

Willard Scott

Willard Scott (Willard Herman Scott Jr.) is an American weather presenter who forecast on NBC's Today show from 1980 to 1996 and originated Ronald McDonald in 1963.