Pete Giddings

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Pete Giddings
Born
Peter F. Giddings

1939
New York City, U.S.
OccupationMeteorologist

Peter F. Giddings (born in 1939 in New York City) is a multiple Emmy Award winning television meteorologist.

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He worked as a local television news meteorologist in Northern California and Northern Nevada. He is best known for his 29 years as a meteorologist at KGO-TV in San Francisco. [1] [2] Giddings earned six Emmy Awards during his tenure at KGO. He now works at Second Harvest Food of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties as a volunteer coordinator. [3]

Career

Giddings' first television job was at WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida where he worked for five years. After a stop in Nashville, Tennessee, he moved to KGO in 1970. He joined Reno, Nevada’s KOLO-TV in January 1999. [4] In 2001, he returned to predicting coastal storms in California as he returned to KGO (AM) and at the same time, Giddings forecast the weather at KION and KCBA in Salinas from 2003 to 2007. Giddings began one of the first regional broadcast ski reports in the 1960s. He is now doing web based forecasts for the Bay Area on his own website. [5]

In the film George of the Jungle , Giddings appears as the ABC7 meteorologist that George is watching while hyped up on coffee. [6]

Meteorology

In 1990, the AMS honored Giddings with the Award for Outstanding Service by a broadcast meteorologist in recognition of his efforts to combat scientific illiteracy among youth.

In 1996, Giddings was one of fifty meteorologists from around the world to be invited by the Clinton administration to participate in a summit on Climate Change.

Education

Giddings won a national Emmy Award in 1977 for his work producing an educational program entitled What Makes the Wind Blow.

In 1990, the California State Legislature and congresswoman Nancy Pelosi honored Giddings with an official resolution for Weather Fun with Pete Giddings a twenty lesson basic meteorology course for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. The program ran in more than 200 California schools.

Personal life

Originally from New York City, Giddings attended the University of Maryland and University of South Florida in Tampa. Pete and his wife live in San Jose, California. They have one son. Pete has a daughter and son from previous marriage.

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  1. ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/07/15/NEWS15019.dtl SF Gate
  2. ↑ http://www.allbusiness.com/entertainment-arts/broadcasting-industry/6886942-1.html All Business
  3. ↑ Wing, Kevin (2019-08-17). "Gold and Silver Circle". Emmysf.tv. Archived from the original on 17 August 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  4. ↑ http://pipl.com/directory/people/Pete/Giddings Pipl
  5. ↑ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/03/18445534.php IndyBay
  6. ↑ Willis, John (2000). Screen World 1998. Applause Theatre Books. ISBN   9781557833426.
  7. ↑ "EntityCube - Pete Giddings". Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2010-03-10. entity cube
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