Joanne Feldman Biography
Joanne Feldman is an award winning journalist currently working as the FOX 5 Storm Team meteorologist every weekday on Good Day Atlanta! She returned home to join FOX 5 Atlanta in 2007.
Joanne Feldman Career
Feldman is always ready to help plan your day and has a deep passion for meteorology and the great state of Georgia.
She is an Emmy Award-winning and American Meteorological Society (AMS) Certified Broadcast Meteorologist with the FOX 5 Storm Team. Feldman was born and raised in Marietta, Georgia and is a proud graduate of Lassiter High School.
Feldman studied meteorology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from the University of Georgia. She graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Feldman then headed to the master’s program in Meteorology at Penn State University on a scholarship from the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
She began her broadcast career when she was one of two graduate students selected to forecast for Penn State’s daily weather magazine, “Weather World”. A show that has a huge following all across the state of Pennsylvania. Feldman then headed to Fresno, California to work at KMPH, and later KFSN, as the weekend meteorologist. She became the news anchor for the station’s top-rated morning show shortly after moving to KFSN. Feldman got a promotion to WTVD in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina after a couple of years honing both her broadcasting and forecasting skills. She spent five years there as the Chief Meteorologist covering tornado outbreaks, a historic ice storm, and numerous hurricane including the landfall of Hurricane Isabel in 2003.
Joanne Feldman FOX 5 Atlanta
In Atlanta, Feldman has received three Emmy Awards – one for best weathercaster in the Southeast, and two for specialty reports on weather. Furthermore, she was voted “Favorite Weathercaster in Atlanta” by the readers of Jezebel Magazine in 2011. In addition, Feldman also holds the prestigious Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designation from the American Meteorological Society. It is the highest designation offered to broadcasters after they have proven scientific competency and passed a rigorous exam.
Moreover, she helped launch the 10 a.m. hour of Good Day Atlanta, where she is a co-host covering the day’s lifestyle and entertainment news in April 2019. In her spare time, while she doesn’t watch Georgia’s skies Feldman is in a ballet class, running, spends time with her husband, Chris, and their two children. In addition, she loves watching any good movie so many times that she knows the lines by heart. Feldman and her family reside in Milton, Georgia.
Joanne Feldman Age
She was the Fab Cover winner for 2021 Over 40 and Fabulous, a New Beauty magazine at 48 years old. She celebrates her birthday on 11 April is now 50 years old as of 2024.
Joanne Feldman Height
Feldman stands at an average height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.63M) tall.
Joanne Feldman Education
Feldman studied meteorology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from the University of Georgia. She graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Feldman then went to the master’s program in Meteorology at Penn State University. She got a scholarship from the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
Joanne Feldman Family
Feldman was born and raised in Marietta, Georgia and is a proud graduate of Lassiter High School. She has a good relationship with her parents and wishes them a Happy Father’s day and Happy Mother’s day on her Instagram page. Feldman has one sibling, a brother.
Joanne Feldman Husband
Feldman met her husband Chris in college at University of Georgia and the two college sweethearts tied the knot on 25 March 1995. They celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary as of 2024.
Joanne Feldman Children
She is privileged to be a mother to two terrific children, a son Cameron and a daughter Cary.
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