Amy Sweezey

Social Weather, LLC

About Amy

Amy Sweezey has spent nearly 30 years in broadcast meteorology at radio and television stations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Florida. She left full-time TV news in 2020 and now freelances for several media companies based in Central Florida including Spectrum News 13 in Orlando.

Amy is a mom of three children and divides her time between mom duties, speaking, writing, hosting, and forecasting.

Amy has authored two children’s books about weather, one fiction, and one nonfiction, and created two weather workbooks based on Florida's state standards for science and weather.

Before Orlando, Amy worked in West Michigan, forecasting blizzards and severe weather at WWMT-TV (CBS) in Kalamazoo. She also worked at WSJV-TV in South Bend, Indiana, and in both radio and television in Chicago, Illinois.

Amy graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago (Go Ramblers!) before continuing and completing her meteorological studies at Mississippi State University. She holds the prestigious Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) seal awarded by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Weather Association (NWA) Broadcast Seal of Approval.

In 2018 Amy was named "Broadcaster of the Year" by the National Weather Association and she is a proud recipient of numerous "Best Weathercast" and "Best Weather Reporting" awards from the Florida Associated Press.

Amy's children's book, Let's Talk Weather, TV Forecasting: Behind the Scenes, was awarded a GOLD MEDAL in the Florida Authors & Publishers Association President's Book Awards in 2018. Her It Never, Ever Snows in Florida was awarded GOLD in 2020. Let's Talk Weather was also chosen as the 2018 Book of the Year by Creative Child Magazine in the "Educational Books for Kids" category, and in 2019, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards named Let's Talk Weather a finalist in 3 separate categories: Children's non-fiction, Educational non-fiction, and Science/Nature/Environment.

With three children, Amy doesn't have much free time, but with the little bit she can find, she enjoys reading and going to the beach (or pool). A self-proclaimed introvert who talks for a living, Amy loves to create quiet space whenever possible, and just.... be.

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