Andy Avalos
Weather Anchor
Updated 11:35 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Andy Avalos appears on NBC5 News Today's weekday morning newscasts from 5 to 7 a.m. He is also seen on NBC5 News at 11 a.m.
Avalos returned to the NBC5 weather team in June 2003, after a hiatus during which he worked as owner and operator of the Pancake Cafe in Lemont, Ill.
Avalos is a member of the American Meteorological Society and holds the AMS Seal. He is also a member of the National Weather Association.
He has more than 25 years of weather experience -- at NBC5 from 1994 to 1998 and prior to that, at WLS-TV, where he worked as weekend forecaster from 1984 to 1994. Avalos also anchored weather reports on weekday mornings on FM-100.
From 1982 to 1984, Avalos served as forecaster for KMGH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Denver, Colorado. Prior to that, he worked for four years as a forecaster at KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs.
Simultaneously, from 1979 and 1982, Avalos worked in his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado as a radio announcer and sales account executive for KDZA-AM/FM. He began his broadcast career in 1977 at KPUB-AM/FM, a country radio station in Pueblo.
Drop Andy a line: andy.avalos@nbc.com.
First Published: Oct 1, 2008 9:17 AM CST
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