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Craig Setzer

Craig Setzer

Craig Setzer is an American Emmy Award winning Meteorologist. He currently resides in Miami, Florida and also works at the CBS4 where he anchors the weather forecasts for the weekdays forecasts at 5, 5:30, 6, 7, and 11.[1]

Background

Craig Setzer bagged his Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. He majored in severe weather and storm chasing. He is also a 1997 awardee of the Television Seal of Approval from the American Meteorology Society (AMS).[13]

Career

Craig Setzer started his career as a tornado chaser trying to air various tornado twisters, many which were shown live on various channels like The Discovery Channel, The Weather Channel, and The Learning Channel. He later joined KSDK-TV in St. Louis as the on-air meteorologist. He has worked with several other television channels such as the KRDO-TV located at Colorado Springs, Colorado where he served as the chief Meteorologist. On January 2000, he joined the WFOR-TV CBS4 as a meteorologist.[14] He is quite active on social media platforms like Twitter via his handle (@CraigSetzer)[1] and also on Facebook via (Craig Setzer Meteorologist)[11]

Articles

Some of his recent articles are listed below:

  • Subtropical System To Form Over Weekend Near Northern Bahamas. Where he wrote that:

An area of low pressure has begun to form Thursday morning south of the Florida Keys and is moving slowly northeastward toward the northern Bahamas. With the low-pressure area, showers and thunderstorms with gusty winds have been increasing. Some of the storms are bringing heavy downpours to Cuba and the Florida Keys. These storms will gradually spread north into South Florida mainland Thursday afternoon and Friday.

  • Vintage Vehicles & Colorful Cocktails At Boca Raton’s 14th Annual Concours d’Elegance

  • Plenty Of Sun For Super Bowl Sunday In Miami

Awards

  • He was awarded the Television Seal of Approval from the American Meteorology Society in 1997

  • In 2017, He was awarded the prestigious Silver Circle award by the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Arts & Sciences

  • He was also a honorary active member of the National Weather Association.[12]

Trivia

Craig loves Cycling. He has taken part in various cyclist tournaments, all for the sake of charity benefits. He once participated in the Dolphins Cancer Challenge so as to benefit the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also loves to race sailboats on South Florida waters.[11]

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