Steve Pool is a retired chief weather anchor. He began covering sports for

KOMO-TV KOMO-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Bellevue-licensed Univision affiliate KUNS-TV (channel 51). Both stations share studios wit ...

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in 1977 and eventually became the principal weather anchor for that station from 1984 to 2019. Pool started his career at KOMO-TV as an intern while studying at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seat ...

. After graduating in 1978, Pool became a writer, reporter, and eventually a weather caster. In the 1980s, Pool began hosting a program on KOMO-TV titled "Front Runners" which aired every Saturday. In the 1990s, Pool was the host of a children's

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series called "Little Steps" Pool received eight

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s during his career and made more than 70 appearances on

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. Additionally, he is the author of a book about weather and its forecasting, titled ''Somewhere, I Was Right''. In 2004, he was inducted in

Department of Communications Hall of Fame. Pool announced his retirement from broadcasting in November 2019 after being treated successfully for

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Steve Pool's personal website
Living people Daytime Emmy Award winners Television anchors from Seattle American television meteorologists 20th-century American journalists American male journalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-journalist-1950s-stub