Craig Allen (born January 25, 1957, Brooklyn, New York) is a
meteorologist
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whose weather reports used to be heard weekdays on
WCBS Newsradio 880 (880 AM radio) in
New York City
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and globally on Audacy.com. WCBS-880 suddenly left the airwaves in August 2024. He continued to provide the CBS News Radio Network with briefings and in depth coverage of major weather events, heard on over 700 stations across the country. Allen has also returned to CBS News-New York, part-time First Alert forecaster for CBS2.
Allen previously worked for WCBS-TV until September 2006 including
CBS This Morning from 1996 to 1999. He has also done part time work for WNYW-TV and was the weekend meteorologist at WPIX-TV from 2010 to 2020. Allen is a graduate of Farmingdale High School. He earned his bachelor's degree from
Stony Brook University in 1979 and was the chief
meteorologist
A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists ...
on WCBS-880 since 1981.
On April 27, 2024, Allen began his 43rd year with WCBS-AM/880. Since WCBS-AM is no longer on air, Allen is now providing WBBR/1130 (Bloomberg Radio) with in depth briefings concerning hazardous weather and continues to be one of the longest running meteorologists on radio in the country according to CBS News, th
''New York Daily News''and an interview with Jerry Barmash from the ''New York Examiner/Fish Bowl NY''.
See also
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New Yorkers in journalism
References
1957 births
Living people
American meteorologists
CBS News people
Scientists from Brooklyn
Stony Brook University alumni
Farmingdale High School alumni
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