Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Erin Clanahan is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist who graduated with a B.S. in Meteorology from Florida State University.
- This 5′2″ powerhouse has broken into the male-dominated TV reporting world, and is making waves.
Personal Life : Family Background & Childhood
- Erin Olivia Clanahan was born on August 11, 1992, in Jacksonville, Florida. She first became interested in weather during the particularly treacherous 2004 and 2005 Hurricane seasons.
- Growing up in Dade City, Florida, she remembers losing power and days off school for hurricanes, and that she wanted to see one up close and personal. A fact, which horrifies adult Erin!
- At school, she enjoyed art, winning third place for St. Anthony’s Catholic School in eighth grade. In high school, she was on the Varsity soccer team for Pasco High School.
- She attended Florida State University, and is an avid Florida State Seminoles football team fan. She enjoys running and trying out local restaurants.
- Her other pastimes include reading thrillers, watching The Bachelorette & hosting a podcast which recaps the show called Bachcast.
Career Progress, Salary and Net Worth
- During her senior year at Florida State, Clanahan worked for WTXL/ABC 27 in Tallahassee, Florida, as their Weekend Meteorologist.
- She went to Billings, Montana, after graduating, where she joined KULR8 as the co-anchor for Wake-Up Montana as the morning meteorologist. It was here she experienced her first blizzard and Midwest winter.
- As a scientist at heart – She enjoys forecasting the contrary weather. While on-air at KULR8, she did live interviews and also arranged many of the show’s segments such as Perfect Pet and Fashion Friday.
- Clanahan moved back to Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and began working for WFox/WJAX Action News in Jacksonville. Here, she visited local schools, science centers, and community events discussing how Hurricane Matthew and other storms have affected Florida’s coast and increased erosion in the everglades.
- When a position opened in Durham, North Carolina as weekday traffic anchor and meteorology, she accepted. Her continued efforts to motivate women to enter the science and technology fields are an important step toward promoting women in these fields. She has been a part of the CBS family in North Carolina since November 2017 on WNCN.
Fun Facts, Height and Trivia :
- In September 2017, Erin experienced first-hand the destructive power of Hurricane Irma. Despite losing her roof to Irma, the experience reinforced her passion for weather reporting to ensure her community’s safety.
- It was announced by Erin on her Facebook page that she chose the Triangle area for a very special reason; her boyfriend Andrew lives in the area. Since arriving in the Carolinas, she is rapidly becoming a Duke basketball fan. She is frequently at the lake, wake-boarding with her family, or with her Chiweenie dog, Oliver, or cat Leo.
- Being passionate about fashion and beauty, Clanahan is also a writer for Sunshine and Lace, an inspiring online magazine for millennial women. The posts include fashion, health and fitness, travel, food, and dating tips. She also encompasses a little weather knowledge on what to wear to stay cool in the heat, and some iconic looks for everybody’s style preference.
We can expect a lasting career for Clanahan, doing exactly what she loves – forecasting Mother Nature.
Erin,
I missed seeing you on TV here in Jax., but followed you on the computer to a TV station in Durham. If my name rings a bell it is because I sent/posted you cartoons and pictures of the SOUTH at your Durham station. I remember the creepy “Mrs. Beasly doll” episode in the haunted museum and the trip to the corn maze.
You and your fellow reporter went in for a make-up lesson at a local salon and I was very impressed with how beautiful and smooth your face was. You two had a lot of fun adventures, but I noticed that you did not get to do the weather very often. I remember you did the weather here in Jax. very well and very OFTEN…Is that why you left the station so suddenly?
Anyway, am a big fan and just wanted to know how to keep in touch with my favorite FSU weather girl!