Veteran WGN-TV Meteorologist Tom Skilling Sets Retirement Date
deadline.comTom Skilling, a TV meteorologist who has been forecasting the weather on Nexstar’s WGN-TV in Chicago for 45 years, announced tonight on the WGN Evening News that he will retire on February 28, 2024.
Skilling started his career at the age of 14 in Aurora, Illinois while still in high school. He had a series of radio and TV jobs in Illinois and Wisconsin before coming to WGN-TV in August of 1978.
In addition to his weather forecasts on WGN News, Skilling hosted nearly 40 years of severe weather seminars at Fermilab, often welcoming in a “who’s who” of severe weather experts from around the world.
He has reported firsthand on the weather from locales as varied as Alaska, Las Vegas, an ice-breaking ship in the middle of Lake Huron, and, most famously, was once chased by a tornado in Oklahoma.
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