Clear Skies Ahead: Conversations about Careers in Meteorology and Beyond

Clear Skies Ahead: Conversations about Careers in Meteorology and Beyond


Vanessa Alonso, Sunrise/Midday Meteorologist at WCBI in Columbus, Mississippi

January 12, 2021

We talk to Vanessa Alonso, the Sunrise/Midday Meteorologist at WCBI, about borrowing every book on weather from the library while in grade school, being the first student to graduate the University of Miami with a dual major in meteorology and broadcast journalism, job searching during a recession, and her success story achieving the CBM designation.


Episode transcript


Hosted by Rex Horner and Kelly Savoie
Produced by Brandon M. Crose
Edited by Peter Trepke
Theme music composed and performed by Steve Savoie



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