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Pete Delkus is the Chief
Meteorologist
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at
Tegna
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-owned and
ABC
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-affiliated
WFAA-TV
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in
Dallas, Texas
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,
United States
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.
Career
Delkus joined
WFAA-TV
WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur-licensed Estrella TV affiliate KMPX (channel 29) ...
in June 2005. He has both the
American Meteorological Society
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and the
National Weather Association
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Background
The National Weather Association is, ...
seals of approval. He attended
Mississippi State University
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for his master's-level meteorology courses, and holds a Bachelor of Science in TV, Radio, and Film from
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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(SIUE). While at WFAA, trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable honored him with the title of "Top Meteorologist in America". Additionally, he has won nineteen Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Weather Anchor", "Outstanding Weathercast", "Outstanding Host of a News Special" and "Outstanding Host of Special Event Coverage - Big D NYE". He has also been awarded four times by the Associated Press, First Place winner of "Best Weathercast" in Texas.
While presenting the weather on WFAA on 22 July 2023, Delkus jokingly proclaimed that "everyone in McKinney is dead" in response to a glitch in the on-screen temperature map, when the temperature for McKinney was shown to be 101,105 °F.
From 1996 to 2005, Delkus was the chief meteorologist at
WCPO-TV
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, the ABC affiliate in
Cincinnati, Ohio
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.
While there, he received a pair of first place
Associated Press
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Awards for best regularly scheduled weather. Prior to joining
WCPO-TV
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, Delkus worked as a meteorologist for four years at
WFTV
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, the ABC affiliate in
Orlando, Florida
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.
Delkus also has a long history as an outstanding athlete. As an All-America pitcher, he had an all-star college career including a trip to the
College World Series
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. He still holds several records as a pitcher at
SIUE
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is a public university in Edwardsville, Illinois. SIUE was established in 1957 as an extension of Southern Illinois University Carbondale.Butler 1976, p. 18 It is the younger of the two major inst ...
. In 2005, Delkus was inducted into the SIUE Athletics Hall of Fame, as part of the inaugural class and the first baseball player. Out of college, Delkus signed as a Free Agent in 1987 with the
Minnesota Twins
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organization. In 1988, while pitching for the double A
Kenosha, Wisconsin
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, team, Delkus finished the season with 33 saves and a 0.26 ERA. The following year in triple A Orlando, Delkus played 140 innings and saved 10 games with a 1.87 ERA. Again, Delkus enjoyed a successful career, earning the "Minnesota Twins Minor League Player of the Year" and the Rolaids Relief Man awards. His career ended prematurely due to a serious elbow injury. In all, Delkus played professional baseball for parts of six years with the Minnesota Twins organization. On December 1, 2023, the Greater St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Pete Delkus will be inducted as part of the 50th Anniversary Class of 2024.
Delkus currently lives in the Dallas suburb
Plano, Texas
Plano ( ) is a city in Collin County, Texas, Collin County and Denton County, Texas, United States. It had a population of 285,494 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is a principal city of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Hist ...
, with his wife and two children, daughter Emily, and son Peter.
References
External links
Delkus DeliversPete Delkus biographynbsp;– WFAA
Peter Delkus baseball statisticsnbsp;– www.thebaseballcube.com
American television weather presenters
1965 births
Living people
Mississippi State University aircraft
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumni
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