Mike Seidel

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Mike Seidel is a meteorologist, who works for the The Weather Channel. He is seen in the studio Saturday through Wednesday and is most noted for his reporting from breaking weather, including hurricanes and snowstorms. Mike joined The Weather Channel in March 1992.[1]

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[edit] Early career

Mike was born in Salisbury, MD on January 18,1956, and his interest in weather started at a young age. He worked for 5 local radio stations during high school and college, including WJDY-AM in Salisbury (1973-1977), WDMV-AM in Pocomoke City, MD (1977), WSUX-FM in Seaford, DE (1977-78) and WKHI-FM in Ocean City, MD. (1978-1983) After graduating from Wicomico Senior High School, he earned a B.S. from Salisbury State College, (now Salisbury University) in Mathematics. Immediately afterwards, he started his TV career with WMDT, an ABC affiliate, in 1980. He earned his Master's Degree in Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University, and wrote his thesis under Dr. Greg Forbes, now The Weather Channel's severe weather expert. While at Penn State he appeared on 'Weather World' on The Pennsylvania Public Television Network. His first full-time TV job was at WYFF-TV, the NBC affiliate in Greenville, SC, where he was employed from 1983-1989. He then returned to his hometown of Salisbury in 1989 to work as Chief Meteorologist for top-rated WBOC-TV, the local CBS affiliate. He remained there through early 1992.

[edit] Weather Channel career

Seidel covered his first storm on Labor Day Weekend, 1996 on Cape Cod, MA. (Hurricane Edouard) Since then he's covered more than 40 tropical storms and hurricanes, Nor'easters, numerous snow and ice storms and has also reported live from the PGA Tour, the All-Star Game and World Series and The Indianapolis 500. Since 2002, he's hosted the NFL Kickoff Forecast every Sunday morning through Super Bowl Sunday at various outdoor NFL venues. While at The Weather Channel he's appeared on numerous network news programs, including NBC's The Today Show and Nightly News, CBS's The Early Show, The CBS Evening News and CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC's Good Morning America, World News Tonight and World News Now. He also filled in for Tony Perkins on GMA in 2003. Seidel has also reported live from breaking weather on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News.

[edit] Personal life

Seidel has been married to the former Christine Schroder since 1994 and they have two children, Sam and Zoe.

[edit] References

  1. ^ ABC News: Tornadoes Claim at Least 24 Lives in Tennessee. www.abcnews.go.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-27.

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