Jackie Layer is an American Meteorologist that is best known for her role with the 7News Boston weather team.

Jackie caught the weather bug when she was just 5 years old growing up in South Jersey.It

was the Blizzard of ’96 which brought over 30″ of snow to the northeast.When another

blizzard did not occur the following winter, investigated.She also credits

a family trip to Florida before Hurricane Charley hit in 2004, as preparing for the major hurricane made Jackie feel even more strongly that she wanted to pursue a career in meteorology.^[5]

Jackie is a Penn State grad.She’s

been forecasting weather on TV in Boston for almost two years.Before that

she worked in South Bend, Indiana tracking severe storms in the summer – including a few tornado outbreaks – and lake effect snow in the winter.During her first

winter in the Midwest wind chills dipped to 40 below zero!^[5]

Jackie is active on her Facebook and Twitter accounts, as of June 2019 with 16,000 likes and 6,800 followers on each platform respectivley.^[3][2]

When she’s not forecasting Jackie loves to travel, meet new people, try new foods and explore the great outdoors.She

really enjoys running in local 5k and 10k races and even half marathons.She’s working

her way up to a full marathon!She also loves

giving back to the community in any way she can.^[5]