She and her husband also love food and wine and plan entire trips around experiencing the culinary scene in different cities and countries. Alex is an advocate for animal adoption and welfare and enjoys bringing attention to the “underdogs” at local shelters.She has three spoiled dogs, Bandit, Riley and Henry, who you’ll often see pictured on her social media (proud mom!).

Holmes Award for excellence in Geology, and was honored as one of the top seniors in the Whitman School of Management (Whitman Scholar). At Syracuse, she was awarded the Chauncey D. and Peggy Myers Scholarship in Meteorology (from the PSU Department of Meteorology) and the John and Elizabeth Holmes Teas Scholarship (from the PSU College of Earth and Mineral Sciences). Hope Endowed Scholarship in Atmospheric Science (endowed by The Weather Channel), the Joel N. At Penn State, she was awarded the AMS John R. Alex holds the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designation from the American Meteorological Society (#357). In December 2007, she graduated with distinction from Penn State University with a bachelor's degree in meteorology. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in both broadcast journalism and marketing from Syracuse University in May 2006.

Alex grew up in Macungie, PA, and studied at Syracuse University and Penn State University. Before that, she spent two years at WOWK-TV and WVNS-TV in Huntington, WV. Previously, she worked as the morning meteorologist at FOX Carolina in Greenville, SC. Alex Wilson joined The Weather Channel in March 2013.

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