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Allison Chinchar

Allison Chinchar

Allison Chinchar born 9 April 1984, in Mansfield, Ohio, United States, is ameteorologist, popularly known for being the wife of storm chaser Mike Bettes,and also for her work with the television Cable News Network [14]([3]CNN). She has been active as aweather reporter since 2007.

Early Life

Allison Chinchar was born in a town of Mansfield in Ohio on April 9, 1984. It is known that Allison’s parents were supportive of pursuing her dream and becoming a Journalist.

She developed an interest towards weather and forecasting at some point in her life as evident during her actions after matriculating from high school.

She joined Ohio University in 2003 after finishing high school. At the college, she decided to choose the course of atmospheric science and Meteorology. She finished college and got a Bachelor of Science degree. While she was at the university she was a member of the Delta,Delta sorority and she was a part of the school’s meteorology club. Her education finished in 2008, and she was ready to follow her dreams.

Personal

Allison is successful in her love and family life.

She is a happily married woman to a Mike Bettes.

The couple dated from around 2010 and decided to get married in 2012, in Atlanta. Like Allison, Mike also finished Ohio State University, and he is also a meteorologist and storm chaser.

Bettes is as well very famous in what he does.

Before he tied a knot with Allison, Mike was married to Stephanie Abrams, who is also a meteorologist. Even though he is twelve years older than her, these two love birds are enjoying their marriage.

Mike and Allison have one child, a son named Landen Benjamin Bettes.

He was born on January 31, 2015.

The pregnancy was announced live on July 2014, and when the baby was born, Mike tweeted about it.

[1][2] During her free time, Allison is known to be very active with charitable groups including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

She also retweets a lot of high profile news stories from CNN, mainly regarding weather and the environment. According to her profile, some of her great interests include space, clouds, and animals. She proclaims herself as a pluviophile, which means someone who really loves rain, often typified by being more joyful and peaceful on rainy days

Career

After completing her education, Chinchar began her career working forWTC-TV where she worked as a weather anchor as well as producing some of the show’s segments.

She stayed there for a year, and then joined WCMH-TV, making regular appearances as the weather forecast reporter. During the same time, she also worked in WTVC-TV News Channel9 from 2008 to 2010, doing the daily forecasts while also working as a producer. The following year, she moved to Tennessee to work for WKRN-TV, then in 2012 she became a meteorologist for Atlanta’s WXIA-TV, and served in that capacity for the next three years.

In 2015, Allison was recruited by one of the world’s most successful news networks in CNN, where she continues to work The network was founded in 1980, and was the first television channel to provide 24 hour news coverage, also becoming the first all-news television channel in the United States. The network is available to over 96 million pay television households in the country and can also be viewed in over 212 countries through its international sister company named CNN International, covering more global news in its programming.

Social Media

She is highly active online through accounts on Social media. She is particularly active on the Twitter on which she has over 4,000 followers, using the platform to give the latest updates on notable weather conditions from all around the country.

Net Worth

Currently her net worth is estimated to be about 200,000 dollars

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