Wolfpack Meteorology - NCSU Weather

NCSU Weather

NCSU Weather is the broadcast meteorology club within NC State’s meteorology program. Students interested in broadcast meteorology are given the opportunity to record weekly video forecasts using a Chroma key ("green screen") and promote their forecasts using various social media platforms. Students also learn how to make weather graphics and communicate complicated science information and forecasts in a way that can be understood by the general public.

Effectively communicating weather information is both a challenge and an increasingly important skill for meteorologists, whether or not broadcast is your final career goal. If you are interested in broadcast meteorology or simply interested in improving your weather communication skills, please contact us!

We are also visiting school groups so if your classroom is interested in learning about weather, please reach out to us!!!

NCSU Weather Promo

NCSU Weather Officers 2020-2021

Notable NC State Broadcast Meteorologists

Kat Campbell

Kat is a former President of NCSU Weather and NC native. When Kat was at NC State she interned at WRAL, WXII, and WeatherBell. Kat's favorite NC State memory was storm chasing with her peers and of course TAILGATING! After graduation, Kat was hired at WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama working mornings. Now Kat is back in Raleigh working at WRAL in the evenings.

James Scott

James is a 2019 graduate of NC State and the former president of NCSU Weather. In James's time at NC State he was an intern at WECT in Wilmington, NC and KARE 11 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His favorite memories at NC State were going to Oak Island with the weather gang and taking Nate Johnson's class which he 10/10 recommends for anyone interested in broadcast. James now works at WCCB in Charlotte, NC working on the weekends.

Justin McKee

Justin is a NC native and avid wolfpack fan. While Justin was at NC State he was an intern at Time Warner Cable's New 14 Carolina (Now Spectrum). Justin's favorite NC State memory was going to football games with his friends as a student. After leaving Raleigh, Justin was able to work at KTTC in Rochester, MN, for two years as he worked weekends. After his time up north, Justin finally made it back to the Carolinas and is working at WWAY in Wilmington, NC where he was working mornings. Justin recently moved to the Blue Ridge mountains where he is working as a weekend meteorologist at WSLS in Ronaoke, VA.

Brian McClure

Brain is always happy to give the wolfpack sign wherever he goes! Brian is a SC native whose love for weather bought him to NC State. Brian was even a walk on kicker for the wolfpack Football team for a bit before focusing on his career. While in school Brian interned WRAL in Raleigh and at The National Weather Service in Washington D.C. . Upon graduation Brian worked as a weather producer at WNCN in Raleigh, before making his first on air debut at WCTI in New Bern, NC. He then went on to Columbus, GA, and then after an active 2005 hurricane season was hired at Spectrum Tampa's Bay News 9. On in the weekday evenings educating the bay area, and sitting on the beach on the weekends.

Sherri Pugh

If you have ever dreamed of working on a national news platform well Sherri can tell you all about it! Sherri looks back on her time at NC State a remembers going up to the lab during tropical season and discussing the forecast with her peers. While attending school Sherri also interned at WFMY in Greensboro, NC and also working at the State Climate Office. After graduation, Sherri was given the opportunity to be a weather producer at CNN, The Weather Channel, and most recently NBC News specifically The Today Show and Nightly News. Sherri also worked on Al Roker's "Rokerthon," where he set the record for longest weather forecast. Finally, after living on the east coast, Sherri switched to the west coast in Oregon volunteering with fire weather.

Internships from Club Members & Alumni

North Carolina- ABC11 Eyewitness News (Raleigh-Durham, NC), Spectrum News (Raleigh, NC), WECT (Wilmington, NC), WFMY (Greensboro, NC), WLOS (Asheville, NC), WNCN (Raleigh, NC), WRAL (Raleigh, NC), WXII (Winston Salem, NC)
Arkansas- KATV (Little Rock, AR)
Colorado- KRDO (Colorado Springs, CO)
Florida- WFLA (Tampa, FL)
Massachusetts- WHDH (Boston, MA)
Minnesota- KARE 11 (Minneapolis, MN)
New York- WABC (New York, NY
Oklahoma- KWSO (Lawton, OK)
South Carolina- WCSC (Charleston, SC), WIS-TV (Columbia, SC),WMBF (Myrtle Beach, SC), WPDE (Myrtle Beach, SC)