Veronica johnson meteorologist biography

American meteorologist

Veronica Johnson is an American meteorologist who is the chief meteorologist at WJLA-TV. She was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society since 2011.

Biography

As a child, at the age of 12, Johnson became interested in the weather,^[1] an interest that grew while she was in Air Force ROTC training in high school.^[2] Johnson earned her undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.^[3] While in college she specialized in atmospheric sciences,^[4][1] and worked at the National Climactic Data Center.^[2] She started her career at The Weather Channel, and then moved to Baltimore where she worked at WBFF,^[2] also known as Fox Channel 45.^[5] She then moved to WABC-TV in New York, and WMAR in Baltimore.^[6][7][2] Johnson left WMAR in 1999,^[8] partially because she was unable to acce