![]() Then the main meteorologist had to have triple-bypass surgery and was going to be out about six months and they wondered who they could get to do the weather. That was my first on-air television position. But the more lengthy answer is that I wanted to be a newspaper writer but when I graduated from college I got started at a TV station and I was a part-time writer but they decided they wanted to make me an entertainment reporter. How did you come to be a meteorologist?Īmy Freeze: Well, the short answer is: it was my last name. ![]() We recently chatted with Amy about her background, Chicago's weird weather, and - yes - her name.Ĭhicagoist: You have a pretty varied background in terms of your career. Don't believe us? Check out her case study on the particularly nasty storms the city experienced in August 2007, Heavy Rainfall Events Continue to Overwhelm Urban Infrastructure. Amy has bounced around the country, reporting for stations in Denver, Portland, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia before winding up in the Windy City, having covered not just weather, but a variety of stories including the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.īut Amy's not the stereotypical "weather girl." Freeze has the skills and knowledge, being one of a small number of women who have a Certified Broadcast Meteorology accreditation from the American Meteorological Society (she also has seals of approval from both the AMS and National Weather Association). ![]() Needless to say, Freeze stayed classy and didn't take the bait while we went on to split our first head-to-head match-up and my team promptly tanked. Pic via Amy Freeze's TwitterSeveral weeks ago, I tried to start up a feud with WFLD Fox 32 Meteorologist Amy Freeze to stir up some excitement in our Chicago media fantasy baseball league. ![]()
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