{"id":252579,"date":"2026-04-16T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252579\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:20:07","slug":"hannah-gard-joins-kxan-austin-as-meteorologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252579\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Gard joins KXAN Austin as meteorologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new face is coming to the airwaves of Austin as a meteorologist for KXAN News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Gard announced last week that she would be joining KXAN, posting on Instagram that she was excited to be moving \u201cclose to family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is bigger in Texas, and so is this next adventure,\u201d Gard wrote on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019m a Texas native, and I can\u2019t wait to be back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gard said she was \u201cthrilled\u201d to be joining an \u201cincredibly talented\u201d team covering Central Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology graduate will start with KXAN in May. She comes from WVUE FOX 8 in New Orleans and was formerly with CNN, KSWO 7 News and KKTV 11 News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people I have met here and at FOX 8 have become family, and saying goodbye is the hardest thing to do,\u201d Gard said in an earlier Instagram post, bidding goodbye to her prior post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gard will\u00a0join Nick Bannin, Kristen Currie, Rich Segal, Freddy Vela, Tommy House and Jim Spencer on KXAN&#8217;s First Warning Weather team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new face is coming to the airwaves of Austin as a meteorologist for KXAN News.\u00a0 Hannah Gard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-252579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}