Lonnie Quinn

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Lonnie Quinn (b. August 9, 1963, Cheshire, Connecticut) is the chief weathercaster on WCBS-TV. Quinn also serves as substitute weather anchor for CBS News' The Early Show and current weather anchor for The Saturday Early Show.

1 Career
2 Acting
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[edit] Career

Quinn joined CBS2 in April 2007. He came to WCBS from WTVJ-TV (NBC6) in Miami, where he served as the weather anchor on “Today in South Florida” and won an Emmy award for "Best on Air Talent."^[1]. In June 2007, Quinn replaced John Bolaris, who has moved to weekends only to finish out his contract. ^[2].

During the 2005 hurricane season, Quinn worked closely with Max Mayfield, the former director of the National Hurricane Center, while tracking the most active tropical season in history. He also joined the Hurricane Hunters collecting data as they flew through the eye of Hurricane Isabel off the coast of North Carolina.

Prior to WTVJ, Quinn worked at WVIR in Charlottesville, Virginia as evening news anchor and weekend weather anchor. Before that, he worked at several different stations in Charlottesville including WADA-TV, as an on-air personality at WQMZ-FM, and as morning show co-host and news director at WVAO-FM.

He graduated from Boston College with a magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in speech communications. He holds a Federal Aviation Administration certificate in meteorology, and currently works on his formal meteorological training.