Tom Skilling, dean of Chicago TV weathercasters, stepping down
CHICAGO — Tom Skilling, the longtime WGN-TV chief meteorologist, announced his retirement Thursday during the evening news. An always sunny presence, whatever the weather in Chicago, Skilling delivered a stormy fall forecast and then hit loyal viewers with the news that he’s reaching the end of a prodigious weathercasting career. “I’ve watched people do this before and there’s no formula for ...
by Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune
Oct 13, 2023
2 minutes
CHICAGO — Tom Skilling, the longtime WGN-TV chief meteorologist, announced his retirement Thursday during the evening news.
An always sunny presence, whatever the weather in Chicago, Skilling delivered a stormy fall forecast and then hit loyal viewers with the news that he’s reaching the end of a prodigious weathercasting career.
“I’ve watched people do this before and there’s no formula for this,” Skilling said.
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