Ginger Zee Biography

Fast Facts

• Inducted into her high school's Hall of Fame in 2012
• Is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society
• Studied meteorology at Indiana's Valparaiso University
• Interested in meteorology since her teens, it was her goal at high school graduation to become a meteorologist on "Today" by age 30
• Began her on-screen career as a weekend weather anchor in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before breaking her contract to work in Chicago, the country's third largest television market
• Earned her first name because of her father's love of "Gilligan's Island"
• Supported herself as a bartender and aerobics instructor while working in smaller markets during the earliest parts of her career