The Most Famous Weather Anchors From Across The World
1 Yanet Garcia
- TV Network: Televisa Monterry
- Country: Mexico
The stunningly gorgeous Yanet Garcia from Mexico actually started her career as a model. When she landed the TV job, she immediately jumped on the opportunity to expand her platform. She quickly became popular among Mexican viewers, as well as audiences worldwide, due to her picture-perfect good looks. Yanet now has 14 million followers on Instagram and has transitioned into acting and fitness training, leaving her weather girl days behind her.
2 Bri Winkler
- TV Network: ABC 7 News
- Country: United States
Bri Winkler was the weather girl from 2011 to 2017 on ABC 7 News. She graduated from the University of Miami and quickly entered the working world as a meteorologist. Since leaving her job on TV, Bri has moved on to become an energy and climate specialist for the City of Santa Barbara. One thing is certain—Bri has both beauty and brains.
3 Jackie Guerrido
- TV Network: Univision
- Country: United States
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jackie Guerrido moved to New York City after graduating from high school. Jackie went on to pursue a career in media, often in Spanish-speaking positions. Eventually, she was offered a weather girl position with Univision. Jackie was the meteorologist first for Al Amancer de Noticias 23 (Morning News at Channel 23) before becoming the weather anchor for WLTV. Over the years, Guerrido continued to move up in her career. She is now the co-anchor of Primero Impacto, Univision’s afternoon newsmagazine show.
4 Naile Lopez
- TV Network: Las Noticias Televisa Monterrery
- Country: Mexico
Like many weather girls who hail from Mexico, Naile Lopez also started her career as a model. She worked in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Miami before transitioning into the role of TV host and meteorologist. Along with forecasting the weather, Naile can also be found on screen as an actress in various Mexican television series. Over the years, she has transitioned to focus more heavily on her acting. She also often shows off her modeling gigs to her over 40K Instagram followers.
5 Maria Quiban
- TV Network: FOX 11
- Country: United States
Maria Quiban was born in Cebu City, Philippines. At 10 years old, Maria and her family moved to Hawaii. Maria started her career in media at KHNL in Honolulu after graduating from the University of Hawaii. Eventually, she decided to take her talents to the mainland and moved to Los Angeles. In 2000, Maria took a job with the FOX 11 News team. She now does the weather forecast daily on Good Day LA and FOX 11 Morning News.
6 Chita Craft
- TV Network: KHOU 11
- Country: United States
Chita Craft was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, though she was raised in California starting at the age of four. Now a meteorologist at KHOU 11 in Houston, Texas, Chita’s first experience on television took place during an episode of The Price Is Right. Chita competed on the game show during her freshman year of college and became the Showcase Showdown winner. She went on to be voted the Best Media Personality for her work with KRCR in California. She then moved to Houston, where she started a family with her husband while maintaining her on-air persona.
7 Susana Almeida
- TV Network: 4 Televisa Guadalajara
- Country: Mexico
Susana worked as a weather girl in Guadalajara, Mexico. She gained popularity for her good looks, which she has used to her full advantage. Susana, now going by Susy, still maintains her job as a weather girl, but she used her popularity to start her own health and beauty brand, Vita Essences. She currently has 390K followers on Instagram.
8 Evelyn Taft
- TV Network: KCAL 9 News
- Country: United States
Evelyn Taft is a highly accomplished woman. She was born in the Bay Area, but eventually moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California. Evelyn graduated with two degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science before earning a certificate in meteorology from Mississippi State University. She has been a weather anchor, news anchor, and reporter ever since. Not only is she incredibly good at her job, but she also impressively speaks Russian, English, Hebrew, and French.
9 Gabriela Grechi
- TV Network: TG4
- Country: Italy
Gabriela Grechi is a well-known face on television in her home country of Italy. She has appeared on commercials, chat shows, sports programs, and more. She began her career on TV in 1999 when she appeared on a daily program called Orario Continuato. Gabriela continued to move up in her career, eventually becoming one of Italy’s best weather girls. Today, Gabriela has 92.6K followers on Instagram and seems to work primarily as a beauty, health, and fitness influencer.
10 Ximena Cordoba
- TV Network: TNT
- Country: United States
Ximena Cordoba is perhaps one of the most popular weather girls to ever appear on the air, as shown by her two million Instagram followers. Originally from Colombia, Ximena first found fame when she appeared on the reality show Protagonistas de Novela, which aired on Telemundo Network USA. Ximena used her popularity from the series to launch an impressive career, full of various hosting and acting gigs. Ximena has worked on Fox Sports, Fox Deportes, TNT, and more, and continues to work as an actress and TV host today.
11 Cristina Blackwell
- TV Network: KENS5
- Country: United States
Cristina Blackwell is not only a gorgeous, well-known face for residents of San Antonio, Texas, but she’s also a highly educated woman with a diverse background. Due to her Mexican heritage on her mother’s side, Cristina attended high school in Mexico before taking a trip across the pond to Paris, where she studied culinary arts at Le Cordon Bleu. She first started her career as a weather reporter for Despierta America before taking on a job with Great Day SA. She worked on that show for three years before departing to spend more time with her family.
12 Mayte Carranco
- TV Network: News Televisa Monterrey
- Country: Mexico
Mayte Carranco didn’t start her career as a media personality. In fact, the Mexican weather anchor was originally a singer in her hometown of Monterrey, Mexico. She also competed in beauty pageants, snagging the title of Miss Televisa Monterrey. She then became a meteorologist, though she still maintains a focus on beauty and fitness. Now 45 years old, Mayte shows off her active lifestyle on Instagram to her one million followers.
13 Indra Petersons
- TV Network: CNN
- Country: United States
Indra Petersons is the gorgeous meteorologist and weather anchor for CNN’s New Day. Now based in New York City, Indra was born in Los Angeles, California. She has a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Arizona, and she is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist. Before New Day, Indra was the meteorologist and weather producer for KABC in Los Angeles. She has received various awards and honors for her work, including the STEM Leadership in Media award honoree from The Alliance for Women in Media.
14 Sabrina Fein
- TV Network: WMAR-2 News
- Country: United States
Sabrina Fein has had a long, lucrative career as a meteorologist. She first embraced the dream of becoming a weather anchor in elementary school after she experienced Hurricane Andrew while living in Miami. She then made her dreams a reality by majoring in meteorology while studying at the University of Miami. After college, she first worked in Springfield, Missouri, and Lubbock, Texas, before moving back to Florida. Her career then took her across the country to San Diego, where she worked as the Chief Meteorologist for CW6. She then relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, and began working with WMAR-2 News, where she still works today.
15 Lluvia Carrillo
- TV Network: Televisa Monterrey
- Country: Mexico
Lluvia Carrillo actually replaced Yanet Garcia as the weather report for Monterrey al Dia. Before becoming a weather anchor, Lluvia got her start on the Spanish sports program Televisa Deportes. Along with her work as a weather anchor, Lluvia also works as a model and often shows off her photoshoots to her 209K Instagram followers. In 2014, Lluvia won Nuestra Belleza Neuvo Leon, a beauty pageant in Mexico. She has also appeared in several magazines and continues to show off her beauty today.
16 Ariane Brodier
- TV Network: M6
- Country: France
Ariane Brodier first started her career in entertainment as an animator before becoming a columnist at a talk show. Eventually, she took a meteorology course and became a weather girl on M6. Also known as Métropole Television, it’s the third most-watched TV network in all of France. Ariane left the weather girl position in 2008, but her career continued to climb. She now works as a comedian and boasts 729K followers on Instagram.
17 Jennifer Delgado
- TV Network: FOX 5
- Country: United States
The gorgeous Jennifer Delgado joined FOX 5 as a weekend evening meteorologist in January 2021. Along with her weather anchor duties, Jennifer works as a reporter for weekday newscasts. Before joining FOX 5, Jennifer worked as a freelance meteorologist for a few years after appearing on The Weather Channel in Atlanta for three years. She also worked at CNN from 2008 to 2013. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from Webster University and later received a Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University.
18 Sheena Parveen
- TV Network: NBC 7 News
- Country: United States
Sheena Parveen is the current meteorologist for NBC 7 News Today and NBC 7 News Midday in San Diego. Sheena received a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Florida State University. She then became a meteorologist at WCTV in Tallahassee. Soon, however, Sheena wanted to experience life outside of Florida, prompting her to move to Philadelphia, where she worked for NBC10. She then moved to Washington, DC, before making the cross-country trek to San Diego, where she still lives and works today.
19 Jackie Johnson
- TV Network: CBS
- Country: United States
Born in Plymouth, Michigan, weather girl Jackie Johnson graduated from the University of South Alabama after focusing her studies on meteorology. After starting her career as a reporter and anchor, she moved to Los Angeles and became the prime-time weather anchor for KCAL 9 News before transitioning to CBS. She retired in 2018 in order to spend more time with her family.
20 Magda Palimariu
- TV Network: PROTV SA
- Country: Romania
Lucky residents of Romania get to see Magda Palimariu on their televisions every day. Magda works as the weather girl on PROTV SA, a Romanian free-to-air network. According to her LinkedIn, Magda has worked at the station since 2007. She has been blessing the screen with her good looks for 14 years and doesn’t seem to have any plans to stop any time soon.
