Jennifer Lopez is an American on-camera meteorologist for WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia and The Weather Channel. She began her career in 1997 at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, and joined The Weather Channel in 2000. She stayed there until 2008, while she started working at KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas. She left KXAS-TV in 2012. She rejoined The Weather Channel in April 2013.
In September 1997, Lopez landed her first position as a weekend meteorologist for WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.[1] She was also a weather producer and weekend meteorologist at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.[1]
In May 2000, Lopez joined The Weather Channel as on-camera meteorologist.[1] She became the co-host of the PM Edition, which was called Evening Edition at the time.[2] In March 2002, she spoke at the 15th Annual Working Women's Survival Show,[3] discussing her career as a meteorologist.[4] She left the network in 2008.[1]
In June 2008, she became the weekday morning on-camera meteorologist for KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas[5] after a nationwide search for a replacement for seventeen-year veteran Rebecca Miller.[6] In 2009, NBC 5 Today, the morning news program for KXAS, and for which Lopez was the meteorologist, won a Lone Star Emmy Award.[7] In November 2010, she participated in the Spokes for Hope charity event, where she helped build bicycles for underprivileged children.[8] She left KXAS in March 2012.[9]
On April 20, 2013, Lopez returned to The Weather Channel doing weather updates during taped programming and was an on-camera meteorologist on Weather Center Live.
Lopez is a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), where she holds the seal of approval in television.[1]
Lopez graduated with a Bachelor of Science in telecommunications from Marquette University.[1] Lopez's second degree was a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Florida State University.[1] She and her husband, a Southwest Airlines pilot, have two daughters.[10]