Mari Ramos is a

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American weather

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for

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. She presents weather segments on CNN Newsroom, News Stream, World Business Today, and the International Desk. Ramos also appears occasionally on CNN/US, Headline News and Airport Network. She also presents special severe weather reports on

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Biography

Ramos was born in

Chinandega Chinandega () is a city and the departmental seat of Chinandega department in Nicaragua. It is also the administrative centre of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is Nicaragua's 2nd most important city (economy) and 6th largest ...

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, but moved to the

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when she was only 8 years old. Ramos received a

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degree in

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s and

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from

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. Currently, Ramos is working toward Broadcast

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Certification from

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. Ramos began her broadcasting career at WPLG, an ABC affiliate in Miami, where, as an intern, she practiced newsgathering and writing for the station's evening newscasts. Ramos worked at

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as an on-camera meteorologist and reporter for the

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division of the network, before joining CNN in 1999. She is fluent in English and Spanish and speaks conversational French.

References

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