Allison Chinchar is an American meteorologist mostly recognized for her weather forecast for CNN. Previously working for channels like WTVC-TV where she first gained work experience as a weekend evening meteorologist. Since 2015, Chinchar started working for CNN as a weather forecaster. Chinchar has also covered some of the very critical weather conditions throughout her career.
Chinchar at present lives in Atlanta in Georgia along with her husband and her children while continuing to work for CNN.
Over 25 potential record highs today across the southern US, but when you combine that with high winds & dry air the wildfire risk goes up! pic.twitter.com/hJFYMtKbzu
— Allison Chinchar (@AllisonChinchar) February 11, 2017
Allison Chinchar: Early Life, Career, and Nationality
Allison Chinchar was born on 9th April 1984 in Mansfield, Ohio which means her nationality is an American. She graduated from Ohio State University where she majored in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology in the year 2008. After graduation, she started working as a weather reporter working actively in weather forecasting.
Her first work was in WCMH-TV as a daily forecast reporter that was only for a brief time. Later she collaborated with WTVC-TV where she worked as a creator, anchor, and a producer. Shortly after, she switched her job to WXIA TV in the year 2012 until finally settling for CNN in the year 2015 where she joined as a weather forecaster. She is currently working as the weather forecaster for CNN.
Super excited about working with my twin sister today @twcMariaLaRosa pic.twitter.com/HVQ0SWdUNe
— Allison Chinchar (@AllisonChinchar) November 23, 2016
Chinchar has covered some extreme weather conditions that include 2010’s tornado outbreak, Hurricane Isaac and devastating Ef2 tornado crossing the Chickamauga Dam for which she received critical acclamation.
Allison Chinchar: Personal Life, Husband, and Children
Allison Chinchar is now living her best of life. As her career with CNN, her personal life seems to be doing extremely well too. She married her husband, Mike Bettes who is also a fellow meteorologist in October 2012. They dated for a couple of years and finally deciding to marry one another. They married in Allison’s hometown of Atlanta. Her husband, Mike previously married NBC’s meteorologist, Stephanie but they split later.
Thanks @brucewxman for the gift! Starting him young on weather radios! #besttoy #flashlightworks @MidlandUSA pic.twitter.com/BWZu0kolgk
— Allison Chinchar (@AllisonChinchar) August 21, 2016
After a successful 6 years together, the couple is now, a proud parent. Their first child, a baby boy was born in January 2015, he is named Landen Benjamin Bettes.
Allison Chinchar: Total Net Worth
Allison Chinchar has a high profile career and she is doing pretty well on the work front. With her past records of covering some of the most exclusive experiences in weather history, Allison for sure has an added advantage to her career. However, it is still not clear about her earnings in exact figures. But she has a net worth near to a good million dollars in total as cited by the sources.
@EnvAgencyNW Sorry the clip is short…hopefully this works for you! Thanks for letting us use your pics/video! 🙂 pic.twitter.com/8aYq8rEUKB
— Allison Chinchar (@AllisonChinchar) December 6, 2015
Allison is active on social media. She is usually on Twitter sharing information regarding her work to her followers and other relevant details. In her Twitter bio, she has claimed herself as a ‘pluviophile’, which is a term used for describing people who love rain.
