FOX Weather Hires Veteran Meteorologist Mike Seidel After More Than 30-Year Stint at The Weather Channel
August 05 2024 - 10:06AM
Business Wire
The Weather Channel App’s Ari Sarsalari Also
Joins FOX Weather Team
FOX Weather, FOX News Media’s free ad-supported streaming
television “FAST” weather service, has signed Mike Seidel as a
meteorologist and storm specialist, announced its president, Sharri
Berg. Seidel, who was most recently at The Weather Channel, made
his FOX Weather debut over the weekend in Florida covering the
start of now Hurricane Debby and continued live coverage through
the overnight hours when it made landfall. Additionally, Ari
Sarsalari has departed The Weather Channel App to join the FOX
Weather team effective today.
In making the announcement, Berg said, “We are thrilled to add
Mike to our outstanding lineup of meteorologists at FOX Weather as
we move into the peak of hurricane season. His decades of
experience will prove to be invaluable as we continue to grow our
best-in-class weather network.”
Seidel added, “I'm looking forward to continuing my passion for
storm coverage on FOX Weather, especially with the forecast of a
very busy hurricane season.”
Seidel joins FOX Weather after spending more than 30 years at
The Weather Channel. Logging over 25,000 live shots throughout his
career, he has covered every major weather event of the past three
decades, including Hurricanes Katrina, Ian, Harvey, Irma, and
Irene, among others as well as 100 tropical storms, numerous snow
and ice storms, tornado outbreaks and nor’easters across the
country throughout his illustrious career. He has also covered
weather from several sporting events including the World Series,
the Indianapolis 500, the MLB All-Star Game, The PGA Tour events
and multiple NFL football games.
He got his start in the business at his hometown station WMDT-TV
(ABC) in Salisbury, Maryland, before moving on to NBC’s WYFF-TV in
Greenville, South Carolina. He returned to Salisbury as a
meteorologist for CBS affiliate WBOC-TV until he left to join The
Weather Channel in 1992. Seidel holds a master’s degree in
meteorology from Penn State University.
Sarsalari most recently served as a meteorologist at The Weather
Channel App for nearly a decade. Prior to his tenure there, he
worked as a meteorologist at ABC’s WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Alabama,
and CBS affiliate WOWK-TV in West Virginia.
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(FAST) operated by FOX News Media. The service builds upon FOX News
Channel’s expansive news gathering units & FOX Television
Stations’ (FTS) added resources with a combined 120 meteorologists
for a comprehensive suite of weather products featuring local,
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