

Lexie went to Wachusett High School and then onto Boston University where she majored in Broadcast Journalism. Born and raised in Holden, she is thrilled to be back in her home state. Lexie O'Connor is a meteorologist with the WBZ-TV NEXT Weather Team. Jacob is a member of the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society. Wycoff hold a bachelor's degree in operational and theoretical meteorology from Western Connecticut State University. Prior to that, Wycoff worked at EarthNetworks, the parent company for WeatherBug, where he covered multiple tropical systems and snow storms including hurricanes Earl, Irene, and Isaac. Wycoff joined WBZ-TV from Western Mass News in Springfield, where he was a meteorologist for 5 years.
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A month later, a small tornado touched down near his hometown and in 1996, the movie Twister was released, solidifying Wycoff's desire to one day become a meteorologist. In the spring of 1993, there was the "Storm of the Century" Blizzard, burying the region under nearly two feet of snow. Growing up in Northeast Ohio, Wycoff got hooked on weather at a very early age. Wycoff brings you the NEXT Weather forecast weekend mornings on WBZ-TV, as well as contributing throughout the week. Jacob Wycoff is a meteorologist at WBZ-TV. degree in Atmospheric Science and a minor in Mathematics.

Eric is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY) with a B.S. Previously Fisher worked as the morning meteorologist at WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts.Ī supporter of science and learning, Eric is a member of both the Mount Washington Observatory and the Blue Hill Observatory here in New England. Recent times have unfortunately provided no shortage of natural disasters. Some of the most notable events Fisher reported from include the Moore, Oklahoma tornado in 20 tornado Super Outbreak Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Isaac and the massive blizzards that essentially shut down New York City in December of 2010 and Boston in February of 2013. He produced and delivered national forecasts and contributed to numerous live reports on extreme weather for The Weather Channel, NBC Nightly News, TODAY and MSNBC. Glued to the red warnings crawling across the screen and watching the radar, his career in weather was born.įisher joined WBZ-TV News from The Weather Channel in Atlanta where he spent three years as a Meteorologist. Eric vividly remembers Memorial Day of 1995 as a day that helped solidify his path as a meteorologist, when an infamous tornado ripped through Great Barrington in the Berkshires. It offers the challenges of blockbuster snowstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, frigid cold snaps and dramatic seasonal shifts. Fisher is a frequent contributor to CBS News, often found reporting on breaking severe weather across the country.īorn and raised in New England, Eric says there are few places on earth that produce weather like this little corner of the U.S. He anchors weather segments weeknights at 5PM, 6PM, and 11PM, as well as WBZ-TV News at 8PM on CBS News Boston and TV38. Eric Fisher is Chief Meteorologist for CBS Boston's WBZ-TV.
