Tammie Souza is a multiple Emmy-winning

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, working at

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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from March 2017 until December 2019.

Personal life

Souza was born in

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, Pennsylvania, and raised in San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology from

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, and is completing graduate studies for a master's degree in applied meteorology from Mississippi State University and has received a certification from Mississippi State University's broadcast meteorology program. She earned a pilot's license while in college. Souza, her husband and their son moved from the Chicago area to

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, Pennsylvania, in 2017.

Broadcast career

Souza began her career as the morning and noon meteorologist at KHSL in

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. She then became chief meteorologist at

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. Souza later moved to Chicago, where she worked six years at WMAQ, and two years at

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. While at WMAQ, she was known for recruiting viewers to provide temperature and rainfall as "weather watchers", and for visiting of grade schools with an interactive and educational weather presentation called ''Weather With Class.'' After the death of Dick Fletcher, WTSP's longtime chief meteorologist, Souza was hired to be the station's chief meteorologist. Souza's sister, Patty, was a meteorologist for WTSP's sister station

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. At one point, Tammie and Patty Souza were the only siblings in the United States who delivered weather on television. Souza is one of a handful of women nationwide that holds both the prestigious AMS/CBM Seal and the NWA Seal and sits on the boards of both the

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and the

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. In March 2017, she joined Comcast-NBC-owned

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(NBC 10) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her last day at WCAU was December 6, 2019. In January 2020, she began what is expected to be a brief stint filling in for vacationing regulars at Philadelphia's CBS3. In August 2020, she began a brief stint filling in at

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CBS2 in

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. She will still fill in at Philadelphia's CBS3.

Awards and nominations

Souza has received 17 Emmy nominations and six Emmy Awards, including Best Weathercast, Best Weather and Science Report and for Special Live Reporting, as well as a first place award from the

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for a report on Shipwreck

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in Lake Michigan. The

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recognized her with a nomination for her story about fugitive slave ships on Lake Michigan.

Acting career

Prior to her career in broadcast meteorology, Souza had several small acting roles.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

Official WTSP biography
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Official Twitter page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Souza, Tammie Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Portuguese descent American television meteorologists Television anchors from Tampa, Florida San Diego State University alumni Mississippi State University alumni