Jimmy Stewart (born 1941) is an American retired television

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 ...

and photographer. He was the chief

for KVOA-TV 4 in

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from 1998 until his retirement in 2011, and is among the most well-known television personalities in the area. He is also an astrophotographer, taking advantage of the reduced

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in and around

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, located to the west of the city. Stewart began his broadcast career in radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961. He subsequently worked in such cities as Washington, D.C., Des Moines and Minneapolis, ending up in Tucson, where he worked at radio station

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before making the jump to TV, taking over as weekend weather anchor at CBS affiliate KOLD in 1981, earning a degree in atmospheric physics from the

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while serving as the on-air weathercaster. Stewart made the move to NBC affiliate KVOA in 1990. Initially, he served as a morning and afternoon meteorologist, but moved into the Chief Meteorologist role after Michael Goodrich, the longtime meteorologist for KVOA, retired in June 1998. After his retirement, Jimmy Stewart has been focusing on his astrophotography, and also traveling to various schools throughout Southern Arizona, teaching the science behind the weather to children.

References

External links

Official website

Jimmy Stewart on High Desert Sky

Biography of Jimmy Stewart at KVOA

Weather at KVOA-4 (with video)
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