TV Weather Career

A Northern California native, Jennifer moved to Wyoming and then to New York for her television career. She is currently the weekday evening meteorologist for the 5pm and 6pm newscasts at WGRZ - TV NBC Channel 2 in Buffalo, New York.

Jennifer has earned the highest weather seal you can get as a meteorologist in television, the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) Weather Seal, given by the American Meteorological Society.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, Jennifer first started broadcasting for her high school, and then for her college in San Francisco while working at the local NBC station.

After graduating with her first degree, Jennifer moved east and worked at the NBC station in Casper, Wyoming. Jennifer covered news and weather, which included strong deadly tornadoes, severe cold weather outbreaks, large forest fires, and damaging wind and snow events. Jennifer also went to cover a shuttle launch at the Kennedy Space Center, FL.

Jennifer was then selected to work in the highly competitive weather market of Buffalo, NY. During her time there, working for ABC and then NBC, she has covered many severe weather events from the studio anchoring and out in the field live reporting. These include the more recent significant January 2024 lake effect snow storms, the July 2024 New York State record breaking tornado outbreak when she weather anchored for several hours during extended coverage, and the historic downtown City of Buffalo tornado, 2024. She also covered the big 2023 November lake effect snow event "Snowvember #2", and the first "Snowvember" pre Thanksgiving lake effect snow storm of 2014, the double blizzard of 2014, the devastating October Snowstorm of 2006, many blizzards, the Hamburg tornado, the Cheektowaga tornado, and numerous tornado outbreaks and damaging snow and wind events. She also made it through the significant and deadly Christmas Blizzard of 2022 snowed in for many days.

Jennifer has also tracked hurricanes and covered impacts from hurricane remnants locally including flooding and tornado outbreaks. She also covered the rare 2024 Total Solar Eclipse path of totality right over downtown Buffalo co-anchoring hours of extended coverage, and the impressive 2024 Solar Storm that brought the Northern Lights across Western New York.

Jennifer went back to school to receive a second degree, a calculus based Meteorology Degree, from SUNY College at Brockport, NY. She graduated among the top of her class, in the Honor's Program.

Jennifer has received several awards and honors for weather coverage, including a New York Emmy Award.

Jennifer has written an educational weather book for children, Willy and Lilly’s Adventures with Weather, which she brings to many of her school visits.

Jennifer is married, has 3 children and loves to go on family adventures, especially in their camper and out in nature. And they all keep busy with their 2 puppies.