Jennifer Lopez (meteorologist)

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Jennifer Lopez is an American on-camera meteorologist for WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia and The Weather Channel. She began her career in 1997 at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, and joined The Weather Channel in 2000. She stayed there until 2008, while she started working at KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas. She left KXAS-TV in 2012. She rejoined The Weather Channel in April 2013.

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Career

In September 1997, Lopez landed her first position as a weekend meteorologist for WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. [1] She was also a weather producer and weekend meteorologist at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida. [1]

In May 2000, Lopez joined The Weather Channel as on-camera meteorologist. [1] She became the co-host of the PM Edition , which was called Evening Edition at the time. [2] In March 2002, she spoke at the 15th Annual Working Women's Survival Show, [3] discussing her career as a meteorologist. [4] She left the network in 2008. [1]

In June 2008, she became the weekday morning on-camera meteorologist for KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas [5] after a nationwide search for a replacement for seventeen-year veteran Rebecca Miller. [6] In 2009, NBC 5 Today, the morning news program for KXAS, and for which Lopez was the meteorologist, won a Lone Star Emmy Award. [7] In November 2010, she participated in the Spokes for Hope charity event, where she helped build bicycles for underprivileged children. [8] She left KXAS in March 2012. [9]

On April 20, 2013, Lopez returned to The Weather Channel doing weather updates during taped programming and was an on-camera meteorologist on Weather Center Live.

Lopez is a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), where she holds the seal of approval in television. [1]

Personal life

Lopez graduated with a Bachelor of Science in telecommunications from Marquette University. [1] Lopez's second degree was a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Florida State University. [1] She and her husband, a Southwest Airlines pilot, have two daughters. [10]

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  4. ↑ "At a Glance". Belleville News-Democrat. March 7, 2002. p. 1C. What: 15th annual Working Women's Survival Show.[...] Jennifer Lopez, on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, 12:30 pm Saturday. She will discuss her career as a meteorologist
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