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Name Julia Weiden

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB December 31, 1987. As of 2024, she is around 37 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

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Introduction :

Julia Weiden is an experienced American weather presenter who has worked for several news and weather networks in the past.

Early Life and Education :

  • Julia was born on December 31, 1987, and is a New York native. Julia remembers being fascinated by the weather as a 3-year-old, having a tree fall on her family home during Hurricane Bob. She grew up on Long Island, NY, and asked her grandmother how hurricanes develop while observing the damage from the storm.
  • Although Julia admits she was hoping to make important discoveries about tornadoes or hurricanes, with the common assumption that broadcast meteorologists weren’t scientific enough, her Senior year, she transitioned because she accepted that she wasn’t the math and science whiz I thought I was in high school.
  • She realized that she didn’t have a future in academia and research but would be an asset to a meteorology team.
  • In 2010, Julia received a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University, a rare major for an Ivy League School. Her advice to students is “don’t let your judgment about what you should be doing cloud over (pun intended) what you can do and are good at doing.”

Family, Married Life and Children :

  • Julia married Mark Leopold on October 10, 2015, in Ithaca, New York. Mark is a freshwater biologist for the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. He is also a wildlife and fisheries nerd, and a fellow Cornell graduate.
  • Mark has been the manager of a craft brewery bar and anticipates writing a book about craft beer history.
  • Together, they have a website titled The Happy Hour Hero, and include blog-style recipes for inebriation.
  • Julia and Mark have a baby girl named Clara Mae, who was born in September 2017.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

  • Julia started her career in Syracuse, New York, covering blizzards and guest hosting the mid-morning talk show Bridge Street.
  • She also has spent time chasing tornadoes in Jackson, Mississippi. Her mentor in Jackson was famed broadcast journalist Bert Case, who helped her to speak the language of the Mississippi South.
  • Weiden frequently offers meteorology training to the U.S. Military stationed near her home in Pennsylvania. She has completed a lifelong dream, having flown with the Hurricane Hunters in the Air Force Reserve, and experienced the eye of Hurricane Matthew from the sky.
  • Currently, Weiden works for News Channel 9 as an AccuWeather Meteorologist, a severe weather specialist. She has experience reporting nasty winter blizzards & the snow brought on by the lake effect.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

  • When she is not broadcasting, Julia enjoys being a group fitness instructor and personal training. She teaches kickboxing, barre, and boot camp classes. Part of her classes is about pushing yourself but knowing where to draw your personal line.
  • She and her husband enjoy hiking with their dogs in the state parks.

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