A Northern California native, Jennifer moved to Wyoming and then to New York for her television career. She is currently a weekday evening meteorologist at the NBC station in Buffalo, NY.
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 a 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 2024 January lake effect snow storms. Also, the pre Thanksgiving lake effect snow storm of 2014 "Snowvember", the October Snowstorm of 2006, many blizzards, the Cheektowaga tornado, and numerous tornado outbreaks and damaging snow and wind events. She also covered the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse path of totality right over downtown Buffalo hours of extended coverage, and the 2024 Solar Storm that brought the Northern Lights across Western New Yor.k.
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.
Jennifer went back to school to receive a second degree, a calculus based Meteorology Degree, from SUNY College at Brockport. 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 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.
"Embrace each season to its fullest. Stop and catch a snowflake." -JS