Tammie Souza Biography
Tammie Souza is a multiple Emmy-winning and certified meteorologist from the United States working at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the station in March 2017.
How old is Tammie Souza? – Age
She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in San Diego, California. Her date of birth is not known.
Tammie Souza Family – Education
Tammie has been fascinated with weather since she was a child when her grandfather took her flying. Weather is something that runs in the family. Her sister works as a TV meteorologist, her brother is an airline pilot, and her father was a NASA astronaut. She graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in applied meteorology at Mississippi State University. She is also certified by Mississippi State University’s broadcast meteorology department. While in college, she acquired her pilot’s license.
Who is Tammy Souza married to?
She is married to Greg Hendricks. The couple has a son Caleb Hendricks and fur baby Mr. Waffles the cat.. She together with her husband and their son moved from the Chicago area to Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, in 2017.
Tammy Souza Illness
She is still alive and well. She hasn’t been unwell or had any health problems, according to reports.
Tammie Souza brain tumor
Caleb, her son, was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor in July 2017. She described her son’s tragic, courageous, and miraculous journey. In an interview, she said that her husband Greg called on a weekday morning in early April saying that, their son Caleb had woken up screaming about a headache, then vomited and went back to sleep. That had never happened before and Greg was ready to head for the doctor’s office when Caleb woke up and said he felt fine. Strangely, her first thought was a brain tumor, but he suffers from seasonal allergies and so they convinced themselves that was the cause. They were wrong. More of her story is shared here.
Tammy Souza Career
She is a licensed meteorologist and one of just a few women in the country to hold both the American Meteorological Society’s CBM (AMS) Certified Broadcast Meteorology Seal of Approval and the National Weather Association’s NWA Seal of Approval. Both seals indicate the greatest level of skill in delivering complicated weather, water, science, and climate information, as well as stringent educational requirements in atmospheric science.
Tammie is happy to be returning in Chicago, where she previously worked for NBC 5 and FOX 32. She’s also worked as the Chief Meteorologist at WCAU in Philadelphia, as the Chief Meteorologist at WTSP in Tampa/St Petersburg, and as a weekday meteorologist at WDJT in Milwaukee. She’s covered tornadoes, blizzards, storms, floods, heat waves, and wildfires along the road. She enjoys sharing photographs and stories from her storm chasing and spottering outings. Her work has also included addressing climate change and environmental challenges.
She has 18 Emmy nominations and nine Emmy wins for Best Weathercast, Best TV Science Report, Feature Reports, and Web Reports, as well as an Associated Press award for her Shipwreck Diving on a 125-year-old schooner in Lake Michigan, a Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club for how to safely escape a submerged car, and was a national NABJ award nominee for the Underground Railroad Ships of Lake Michigan.
Tammie was the National AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology’s first female chairman. She has served on numerous AMS and NWA National Boards and is currently an evaluator for AMS/CBM and NWA Seal applicants. Her hobbies include health and fitness, organic gardening, snow skiing, water skiing, scuba diving (PADI certified), flying, cake decorating, and house renovating. She enjoys football, baseball, and hockey as well.
Tammie is involved with a number of organizations and charities, including the Red Cross, Climate Change, Environmental Preservation, Pet Adoption, and Pediatric Brain Tumor Research, which she became involved in after her son Caleb survived a brain tumor at a young age.
Tammy Souza Salary
She earns an annual salary of $290,000.
Tammy Souza Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
