WMTH Alumni

(The following is a bio page that he shares ahead of personal appearances)

Marshall Seese, The Weather Channel, Retired

Marshall Seese was born in Evansville, Indiana and raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. As the son of a Chicago news radio personality, he was introduced early in life to the broadcasting business. Interestingly, a friend of Marshall’s in high school is the actor Harrison Ford. Marshall and Harrison were both heard on the airwaves of WMTH-FM, their high school radio station.

Marshall graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and prior to his dramatic career change, was in sales and sales management at several broadcasting stations in Chicago and subsequently in San Antonio, Texas where he got his start in weather.

Marshall was always fascinated by the weather as a young boy growing up in a city where dramatic changes in the weather occurred often. He had the luxury of his father bringing home the day’s weather maps used by the television meteorologists at CBS so that he and his friends could pretend that they were broadcasting from a make-shift newsroom in his parent’s basement.

It wasn’t until 1984 that Marshall was able to begin realizing his dream of becoming a television meteorologist. As a creative outlet, while performing his duties as National Sales Manager for the CBS television affiliate in San Antonio, he spent time after hours working with the station’s meteorologists and studying meteorology through distance learning at Pennsylvania State University and other colleges. His studies led him to membership in the American Meteorology Society. He also sits on the Board of Regents at the Weather Research Center based in Houston, Texas.

In 1987, he began his career as an On-Camera meteorologist/anchor at The Weather Channel, which was in its fourth year of operation. He retired in November, 2008 after twenty-two years of service.

Marshall co-anchored Your Weather Today with Heather Tesch which is seen each weekday morning from 7 – 10 am eastern time. Your Weather Today had the distinction of being the most watched news and information program on cable television in 2004.

Marshall was also the correspondent on “Force Four”, a documentary on the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Broadcast in 1990, it received the Cable Industry’s highest award, the Cable Ace Award.

Marshall resides in Marietta, Georgia and is an avid golfer and photographer. He has enjoyed over fifty years of marriage with his wife Carole. They have one son, Marshall, Jr.