Terri Smith

Terri Smith became interested in weather at the young age of four, when she moved to Atlanta, Georgia during the spring, the height of the thunderstorm season in Georgia. Her fear and fascination with storms and tornadoes inspired her to study meteorology at Florida State University where she also earned a minor in communications.

Her broadcast career started in television and included working at WALB in Albany, Georgia and WXIA in Atlanta, before joining the On-Camera Meteorology department at The Weather Channel in June 1991. Terri later joined the On-Camera Management Team, overseeing the Evening On-Camera Meteorologists through 2003. In 2003 she moved to the Radio Department for The Weather Channel, where she has provided forecasts for stations from Boston to Baltimore, Atlanta to Houston, Chicago to Los Angeles.

Terri was a member of the American Meteorological Society and served on the AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology from 1998-2001. In 1997, she represented the AMS and TWC in the first Asian Weather Conference in Tokyo, Japan. She was a guest of the White House at the 1998 Climate Change Symposium. She has served as a presenter and panelist at AMS Broadcast Conferences as well as lecturing in schools and colleges.