Mike Seidel Biography
Mike Seidel is an American meteorologist working for The Weather Channel serving as an on-camera meteorologist as well as a field meteorologist. He joined the station back in 1992.
Mike Seidel Education
Seidel graduated from Salisbury State College with a double major in mathematics and geography. He attained his Master’s Degree in Meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University.
Mike Seidel Career
Seidel is a meteorologist who has managed to enclose different types of weather events ever since his career as a meteorologist began. He has also gone out on assignments at a moment’s notice to cover a variety of weather events for the American public. He has also produced over 21,000 live shots while covering weather live in 46 states since 1996. The states include Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Canada. He was the first U.S. meteorologist to report live from Cuba while covering Tropical Storm Isaac in 2012.
Seidel has also hosted some shows from 2002 to 2012 including the weekly ‘NFL Tailgate Forecasts’ from outdoor stadiums. He also covered the PGA Tour, NASCAR, the Indianapolis 500, the Winter X Games, and the Super Bowl. Seidel had also worked for other stations prior to joining The Weather Channel. Additionally, he has spent some time in NBC’s ‘The Today Show’ and ‘Nightly News’ where he was a reporter. He also spent some time working for MSNBC and CNBC and also appeared on CBS-TV’s ‘The Early Show, ‘The CBS Evening News.’ He also appeared on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ and ABC-TV’s ‘Good Morning America’, ‘World News Tonight, ‘Nightline’ and ‘World News Now’ along with CNN and Fox News Channel.
Seidel’s career began in radio in 1973 where he served at four weather stations in DE and MD. He, later on, moved to television in 1980 at Salisbury’s WMDT-TV and was seen on Weather World on the Pennsylvania Public Television Network while attending Penn State. He landed his first full-time TV job in Greenville, SC at WYFF-TV where he served from 1983 to 1989. In 1989, he moved back to Salisbury and started working for WBOC-TV where he served as a chief meteorologist and served till 1992 when he joined The Weather Channel.
Mike Seidel Age
Seidel was born on January 18, 1956, in Salisbury, Maryland. He is therefore 66 years old as of 2022.
Mike Seidel Height
Seidel stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Mike Seidel Family
Saidel was born to Marilyn “Lynn”(mother) and Samuel W. Seidel (father). His mother was a nurse and his father was an insurance executive.
Mike Seidel Wife
Seidel has been happily married to Christine Schroder since 1994. The couple is blessed with two children; Zoe and Sam and reside in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mike Seidel Salary
Seidel earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.
Mike Seidel Net Worth
Seidel has an estimated net worth of $4 Million which he has earned through being a meteorologist.
Mike Seidel Awards and Recognitions
Seidel also attained his American Meteorological Society’s Television Seal of Approval in 1988. Furthermore, he was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Societies at SSC. He was also elected to the Chi Epsilon Pi, the National Meteorology Honor Society, at Penn State. He has also managed to win several awards ever since his career as a meteorologist began. For instance, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Geography and Regional Planning at Salisbury State College in recognition of his outstanding support in 1994. Seidel was also invited to join the Obelisk Society in acknowledgment of his support of Penn State’s department of meteorology. He was named Centennial Fellow of The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State in 1996 in recognition of his achievements since graduation.
Mike Seidel The Weather Channel
Seidel is currently working at The Weather Channel where he works alongside other famous The Weather Channel anchors and reporters including;
- Stephanie Abrams
- Mike Bettes
- Jim Cantore
- Jen Carfagno
- Kelly Cass
- Jacqui Jeras
- Dr. Rick Knabb
- Dave Malkoff
- Stu Ostro
- Alex Wilson
- Reynolds Wolf
- Tevin Wooten