Charles "Topper" Shutt is Chief Meteorologist at
WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. and forecaster for
WHUR-FM
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.
Career
In 1981, Shutt began his television weather career with
CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, working as a weather producer and substitute weather anchor. In 1984,he moved on to a weekday weather anchor position at WTVK-TV (now
WVLT-TV) in Knoxville, Tennessee. He spent a year, from 1987 to 1988, as weekend weather anchor at
WFMY-TV
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in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1988, he joined WFMY sister station WUSA, also at that time beginning to supply to forecasts to WHUR-FM. In 1992, he co-founded
Automated Weather Source, a network of weather stations that reported real-time observations to be used on broadcast television. Between 1994 and 2000 he served as occasional stand-in for
CBS This Morning weather anchors
Mark McEwen
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and
Craig Allen.
Shutt also served on the
National Science Foundation review panel for the
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Biography
Topper Shutt was a childhood resident of the Washington area, Shutt graduated from
Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland before attending
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in Hartford, Connecticut with a major in history. He went on to the
University of Tennessee and the
University of North Carolina at Asheville to study Meteorology.
He is married with three daughters and lives in
Potomac, Maryland.
References
Sources
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Television meteorologists in Washington, D.C.
Television anchors from Washington, D.C.
Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni
University of North Carolina at Asheville alumni
University of Tennessee alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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