Dylan Marie Dreyer (born August 2, 1981) is an American television

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working for

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. She is also an anchor on Today's 3rd Hour. Dreyer frequently appears on ''

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'' on weekdays as a weather correspondent and as a fill-in for

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and

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. She also appears on

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and on ''

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''. Dreyer joined NBC News in September 2012 after having worked at the now former NBC station WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts since 2007.

Early life and education

Dreyer was born and raised in

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and attended

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, where she played softball and graduated in 1999. She earned a

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from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

in 2003. While in college, Dreyer briefly interned at WeatherWorks, a private consulting company in Hackettstown, NJ.

Career

Dreyer has worked at WICU in

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;

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; and WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts. Dreyer was in a car crash while en route to cover a blizzard for ''

'' on February 9, 2013, she suffered a mild concussion. In addition to her meteorological duties, Dreyer is the host of the NBC educational nature program ''Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dreyer'' broadcast on The More You Know block of programming on

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Personal life

Dylan married

producer and cameraman Brian Fichera in 2012. They live in the New York area. On June 10, 2016, Dreyer announced on ''Today'' that she was expecting her first child. On December 17, 2016, she gave birth to her first child, a son, Calvin. On July 17, 2019, Dreyer announced on ''Today'' that she was expecting her second child in January 2020. On January 2, 2020, she gave birth to her second child, a son, Oliver. On September 29, 2021, she gave birth to her third child, a son, Russell James. Her last day on

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was January 29, 2022, but she will remain on the Third Hour. In 1963, Dreyer's grandmother, Doris Milke, was a record-setting winner on the original version of ''

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''."Go, grandma! Dylan Dreyer shares her grandmother's record-breaking 'Price Is Right' run"
Today Show. December 31, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.

References

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