Stu Ostro Biography
Stu Ostro is an American meteorologist working for The Weather Channel. He serves as the Senior Director of Weather Communications and senior Meteorologist at the station.
Stu Ostro Age
Ostro is 63 years old as of 2021. He was born on December 17, 1958, in Somerville, New Jersey, United States. He celebrates his birthday on the 17th of December every year.
Stu Ostro Height
Ostro stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Stu Ostro Family
Ostro has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his parents. It is also not known if Ostro has any siblings.
Stu Ostro Wife
Stu is married to Leah Ostro. However, he has not revealed any information about his children.
Stu Ostro Net Worth
Ostro has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million -$5 Million which he has earned through his career as a meteorologist.
Stu Ostro Salary
Ostro earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Stu Ostro Career
Ostro serves at The Weather Channel as the Senior Director of Weather Communications and senior Meteorologist. Since 1989, Stu has been with The Weather Channel and has several responsibilities as Senior Director of Weather Affairs and Senior Meteorologist, including being the lead weather brief in editorial meetings and the lead source of tropical news behind-the-scenes prediction guidance; he is also the only initial member of the three meteorologists committee assessing winter storms In recent years, his additional emphasis has been on finding similarities between global climate change and smaller-scale trends of weather.
As a child, Stu’s weather fascination and ambition to become a meteorologist began with a phobia of thunder and lightning. Stu started providing forecasts to the public more than 40 years ago while attending college, through radio stations served by the Campus Weather Service of the university.
Upon graduation from college, his technical career in meteorology started at Accu-Weather as a forecaster, then as a senior forecaster. His responsibilities included delivering radio station weather forecasts, as well as providing forecasts to television, utility, and ski industry customers.
When coming to his education, he is a graduate of Penn State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.). Stu was part of the team nominated for a Television and Documentary Emmy® award for the coverage of Hurricane Harvey by the network in 2018.
For his Twitter weather posts, he has been named on several best-of lists, and has made sporadic appearances on camera over the years, offered several talks to the public, emergency services, and other scientists, and has briefed military leadership. Stu is a fan of music, independent craft beer, and strong coffee, along with being a weather nerd.
Stu Ostro The Weather Channel
Ostro is working at The Weather Channel where he works alongside other famous The Weather Channel anchors and reporters including;
- Alex Wilson
- Chris Warren
- Alex Wallace
- Mike Seidel
- Dr. Greg Postel
- Carl Parker
- Tom Niziol
- Dr. Erika Navarro
- Dave Malkoff
- Dr. Rick Knabb
- Dr. Greg Forbes
- Mark Elliot
- Kelly Cass
- Jen Carfagno
- Jim Cantore
- Chris Bruin
- Mike Bettes
- Stephanie Abrams
- Felica Combs
- Jacqui Jeras
- Tevin Wooten
- Reynolds Wolf
- Paul Goodloe
Stu Ostro Social Media Platforms
Ostro is active on his social media accounts and is often seen posting on his Facebook and Twitter. He has over 214.6k followers on Twitter and over 10.6k followers on Facebook.