Audrey Puente (born March 3, 1970) is an Emmy Award winning American

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. She brings the weather for the weekend news at 6 and 10 p.m. on

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. She also fills in on ''

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''.

Early life and education

Was born to mother Margie and father

Tito Puente Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000), commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz ...

, a musician, songwriter and record producer. She is the sister of musician Tito Puente, Jr. She studied speech communication at Syracuse University and served an apprenticeship at Hunter College. She received her Masters of Science in

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with an emphasis on

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from Mississippi State University.

Career

Puente is a news celebrity, meteorologist, and emcee, who works from New York City. Puente succeeded

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veteran meteorologist Storm Field in January 2007 as the station's main meteorologist, and served in that capacity until WWOR cancelled the evening newscast in July 2013. She has been the weekend meteorologist at

since late 2012, and the main fill-in meteorologist for the channel. In 2016 she and news anchor Dari Alexander co-hosted a short-lived lifestyle show on WNYW called ''The D&A Show''. She previously provided weather forecasts for

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's ''Channel 2 News This Morning'' and ''CBS 2 News at Noon''. On January 1, 2007 WCBS hired John Elliott to take her position. Before WCBS she worked as the weekend morning meteorologist for

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starting in 1999. In the mid-1990s, she was a meteorologist at WJCL and WTGS television in

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, and

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. She also periodically filled in for

Dave Price David M. Price (born October 18, 1966) is an American journalist and weather forecaster who is currently working for WNBC-TV in New York as a weekday afternoon weatherman. Price is perhaps best known for his time on CBS television's ''The Earl ...

on CBS's ''

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''.

Personal life

In September 2000, Puente accepted an award at the inaugural

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ceremony in Los Angeles on behalf of her father, who had died in June of that year. Puente has been married to Jay Thompson since September 18, 2004. She has three children.''My 9 Meterologist Audrey Puente Welcomes Daughter Lola Jaye''
from ''Celebrityparentsmag.com'' August 2010

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Official biography
from

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Career

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