KCCI meteorologist Trey Fulbright will no longer provide their weather news to Central Iowans.
Fulbright is leaving the news station to join KDKA-TV, also a CBS affiliate, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the meteorologist announced on social media Friday.
His last day at KCCI is June 30.
“It has been an honor to join Storm Team 8 and predict/chase the extremes of Iowa weather since I started part-time in 2021 and full-time in 2022,” Fulbright wrote on Facebook. “I appreciate everyone I have worked with over the years and everyone in the community I have met through school visits, Touch-a-Trucks, station tours and the Iowa State Fair.”
Who is meteorologist Trey Fulbright?
Fulbright graduated in 2022 from Iowa State University, where he studied meteorology, journalism and mass communications, the Des Moines Register reported that year. He was one of the newcomers to KCCI’s extensive meteorology department, which dealt with severe weather in the state.
The aspiring meteorologist from Pittsburgh turned to a career in meteorology after a tornado outbreak in 2008, although he had an interest in weather “as long as he can remember,” according to KCCI.
Although he is from Texas, Fulbright considers Iowa home because of his time at ISU and meeting friends and “church family” in Iowa, he wrote.
“This is not a goodbye, but rather a ‘see you soon,’” he said in the social media post. “I still come back every now and then to visit friends, attend conferences and of course to go storm chasing!”
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Paris Barraza is a trending general assignment reporter at the Des Moines Register. Reach her out pbarraza@registermedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @ParisBarraza.
This article originally appeared in the Des Moines Register: KCCI weather team set to change as ISU alumnus Trey Fulbright leaves
