{"id":423817,"date":"2026-09-02T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423817\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:12:11","slug":"khou-11-houston-hires-meteorologist-hannah-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423817\/","title":{"rendered":"KHOU 11 Houston hires meteorologist Hannah Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Evans announced Monday that she has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/marcelino-benito-khou-cw39-anchor-22401605.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the\u00a0TEGNA-owned CBS affiliate<\/a> as a meteorologist, sharing that she had just wrapped up her first day on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Evans comes to Houston from\u00a0WSAV in Savannah, Ga., where she spent nearly three years with the station&#8217;s Storm Team 3. She joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/kprc-2-houston-new-faces-22402739.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">NBC affiliate<\/a> as a meteorologist in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Evans announced her departure from\u00a0WSAV in July but initially kept her destination under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My next chapter is something super exciting for me,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbB5BmOGR_T\/?img_index=1\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Evans wrote at the time<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ll still be forecasting in the South\u2026just a little farther west. Stay tuned\u2026 I&#8217;ll be sharing where I&#8217;m headed very soon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before moving to Georgia, Evans worked at\u00a0WKTV NewsChannel 2 in Utica, N.Y., where she began her television career shortly after graduating from college. She joined the station as a weekend meteorologist in July 2021 before moving to its weekday morning newscast that December.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Philadelphia, Evans developed an interest in weather while growing up and later studied meteorology and atmospheric sciences at Penn State University, graduating with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>While at Penn State, Evans gained forecasting and broadcasting experience through the student-run Campus Weather Service. She also appeared on the university&#8217;s student-produced Weather or Not program and worked as a meteorologist for\u00a0WPSU&#8217;s\u00a0Centre County Report.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Evans announced Monday that she has joined the\u00a0TEGNA-owned CBS affiliate as a meteorologist, sharing that she had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[140459,1836,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-423817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronmedia","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423817","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=423817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}