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Jennifer Stanonis, who grew up in Granite Bay, has joined KOVR as the Sacramento television station\u2019s new chief meteorologist.<\/p>\n
Screengrab from Facebook video by Jennifer Stanonis<\/p>\n
A Sacramento television station has named a new chief meteorologist.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Stanonis, who grew up in Granite Bay, has joined KOVR, in the position, the station said in a news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cJennifer has spent more than two decades tracking some of the nation\u2019s most extreme weather\u2014from tornado outbreaks and crippling blizzards to wildfires, floods, heat waves and tropical systems,\u201d the station said.<\/p>\n
Stanonis, a Sacramento-area native who grew up in Granite Bay, previously worked for KRON in the Bay Area and television stations in Casper, Wyoming, and Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n
Here interest in broadcasting began in high school and carried through to college in San Francisco, the station said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlong the way, she has covered nearly every type of severe weather event imaginable while earning a reputation for calm, authoritative reporting during high-impact weather,\u201d KOVR said.<\/p>\n
Stanonis earned a New York Emmy Award and is the author of the award-winning children\u2019s book \u201cWilly and Lilly\u2019s Adventures with Weather.\u201d<\/p>\n
She is returning to the Sacramento area with her husband and three children.<\/p>\n
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