Tom Skilling
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Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, III (born February 20, 1952), also known on-air as Tom Skilling, is an American television meteorologist.
He has been working as a meterologist at WGN-TV in Chicago since 1978.
Personal life
Tom is the elder brother of Jeffrey Skilling, Enron Corporation's former chief executive officer.
Career
Tom Skilling, the oldest of four children, was born in Aurora, Illinois, where he attended West Aurora High School. At age 14, Tom began his broadcasting career while attending WKKD and WKKD-FM. Skilling found that WKKD's forecasts were inaccurate because they were for Chicago rather than Aurora, so he approached WKKD and asked that the weather be forecast for several days, with the understanding that if his forecasts were correct, he would be hired to run his own weather service. Skilling's forecasts were accurate, and he was hired to forecast Aurora's weather three times a day. He started working at WLXT-TV in Aurora at the age of 18.
Skilling studied meteorology and journalism at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He worked at WKOW-TV and WTSO radio in Madison while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Skilling earned his first big-market television job in 1975, becoming Milwaukee's lead forecaster. Albert the Alley Cat, the station's resident sock puppet mascot, provided his forecasts at WITI.
On August 13, 1978, Skilling returned to the Chicago area and joined WGN-TV. He is currently WGN-TV's chief meteorologist and is widely regarded as the highest-paid local broadcast meteorologist in the United States. He also writes the Chicago Tribune's daily weather column. Ask Tom, the weather page's predecessor, was discontinued in August 2022 following a complete redesigned.
The latest innovations in computer graphics and animation have always been used in his weather forecasts. He has been praised for his deep research and pinpoint accuracy, perhaps best illustrated by his correctly forecasting the Groundhog Day blizzard in 2011 just over two weeks before it paralyzed the Chicago area. As his late WGN-TV colleague Bob Collins called him, "skillful" was consulted on the film The Weather Man, which was set in Skilling's hometown of Chicago at a fictionalized version of WGN-TV.
At WGN until 2022, skiing is under WGN's control.
He also narrated the documentaries It Sounded Like a Freight Train and When Lightning Strikes for the station, about the technology and risks of tornadoes (the Chicago area's history) and lightning (the documentary also includes tornadoes).
Skilling is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. In Batavia, Illinois, he conducts annual tornado and severe weather lectures at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab). The 2013 was the 32nd year of the seminar, and the first that specifically focused on climate change.