Shay Ryan
Shay Ryan is a popular Ft. Lauderdale, Florida native who earned her bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication from FSU. She then went on to earn her Master’s in Geoscience, with a specialization on Broadcast Meteorology.
Ryan has a long history of covering storm, including her firsthand coverage of Hurricane Floyd. During the storm, she stayed in an emergency shelter in Savannah for 36 hours straight to report on the state of affairs. She’s worked as an anchor for FOX 5 and Fox News Channel in NYC. These days, she’s back in her home state, working as a meteorologist for WFTS-TV, in Tampa.
Julia Durda
Julia Durda is a well-known meteorologist in California. She was born and raised in Sacramento but went off to Mississippi State for school. Throughout high school, she was a cheerleader, but it was in college where she started to pursue her career in weather. She studied Broadcast Meteorology and started at KXTV. Then, she landed the role of anchor at KPHO, at which she got to cover hurricane season.
Durda has been married two times, including to a personal trainer named Bryan Francis. The couple weren’t married for very long before splitting. Soon after, she linked up with David Radcliff. The two have been married since 2012, and had a son, Dillon, in June of 2016. Rumor has it her net worth sits above the $2 million mark.
Robin Meade
Robin Meade is one of the more well-known women on this list, and one of the only with a dedicated Wikipedia page – which is a big deal in 2020. What’s an even bigger deal is the fact she has her own morning news show: 'Morning Express with Robin Meade', on HLN.
Meade joined HLN in 2001, but she hasn’t stopped pursuing other interests of hers, just because she’s found her dream job. In 2011 and 2013, the news anchor released country music albums. In the past, she has also won the title of Miss Ohio, the state in which she was born and started her broadcast journalism career.
Jackie Guerrido
47-year-old Jackie Guerrido was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and had a pretty tough time as a child. Her father treated her mother so poorly the two were forced to flee to a domestic violence shelter when Guerrido was just seven. After high school, she moved to New York City, where she did voice-over acting to support herself. She ended up being discovered by a producer, who offered her a job on WRMA in Miami.
She put roots down in Miami, and really flourished in the entertainment world. While there, she studied Meteorology at the University of Miami and presented the weather on Despierta (Wake Up) America. She also went on to become a meteorologist for Univision.
Jackie Johnson
Jackie Johnson has been in the meteorology game for two decades, now, since starting her career in 2000. Before she made her first television appearance, she grew up in Michigan, and then went to school at Middle Tennessee State University, where she earned her degree in broadcast journalism.
After graduating from college, she moved to Florida, where she landed a job in Tallahassee, doing weekend weather reports for WCTV-TV. Johnson worked as a prime-time weather anchor for KCBS-TV until her retirement in 2018. She has appeared in some TV shows and films, including 2012’s 'Battleship', on which she played herself. Johnson has now been married twice, the first time, to John Kidd of the National Football League. The two got divorced and she was remarried in 2016.