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Jennifer Lopez is an American on-camera meteorologist for WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia and The Weather Channel. She began her career in 1997 at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, and joined The Weather Channel in 2000. She stayed there until 2008, when she began working at KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas. She left KXAS-TV in 2012. She rejoined The Weather Channel in April 2013.
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Facts
1. Jennifer Lopez's husband is a pilot with Southwest Airlines.
2. Except for the name, Lopez has nothing in common with the American singer of the same name.
3. NBC 5 won 11 Lone Star Emmy Awards while Jenifer was working with them as a meteorologist anchor.
4. Once while Jennifer was about to go on air at her studio, a young man approached her & inquired if 'real Jennifer Lopez' was going to visit the studio. She nodded in a yes. The excited man, however, realised later that the woman he was talking to is Jennifer Lopez herself, not the singer and actress but the bulletin host. She said the man looked at her, turned beet red and fled.
5. Following all the confusion, Lopez also decided to switch to her married name in the year 2000. But the channel management advised her not to do so as her American husband's surname was very much difficult to pronounce.
6. Joking about the same, Jennifer once said that the twinning of her name with the popular singer and actress also has some plus points, especially while booking an appointment at a salon. The staff gets excited and gives her an immediate slot, she said.
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Career
In September 1997, Lopez landed her first position as a weekend meteorologist for WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. She was also a weather producer and weekend meteorologist at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In May 2000, Lopez joined The Weather Channel as on-camera meteorologist. She became the co-host of the PM Edition, which was called Evening Edition at the time. In March 2002, she spoke at the 15th Annual Working Women's Survival Show, discussing her career as a meteorologist. She left the network in 2008.
In June 2008, she became the weekday morning on-camera meteorologist for KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas after a nationwide search for a replacement for seventeen-year veteran Rebecca Miller. In 2009, NBC 5 Today, the morning news program for KXAS, and for which Lopez was the meteorologist, won a Lone Star Emmy Award. In November 2010, she participated in the Spokes for Hope charity event, where she helped build bicycles for underprivileged children. She left KXAS in March 2012.
On April 20, 2013, Lopez returned to The Weather Channel doing weather updates during taped programming and was an on-camera meteorologist on Weather Center Live.
Lopez is a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), where she holds the seal of approval in television.
Personal life
Lopez graduated with a Bachelor of Science in telecommunications from Marquette University. Lopez's second degree was a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Florida State University. She and her husband, a Southwest Airlines pilot, have two daughters.