Topper Shutt

American television meteorologist

Charles "Topper" Shutt is Chief Meteorologist at WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C., and forecaster for WHUR-FM.2

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedTrinity College3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of North Carolina at Asheville3
  • Date not recordedLandon School3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Tennessee3

Career

Occupation: journalist.5

In 1981, Shutt began his television weather career with CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, working as a weather producer and substitute weather anchor. In 1984, he moved on to a weekday weather anchor position at WTVK-TV (now WVLT-TV) in Knoxville, Tennessee. He spent a year, from 1987 to 1988, as weekend weather anchor at WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1988, he joined WFMY sister station WUSA, also at that time beginning to supply to forecasts to WHUR-FM. In 1992, he co-founded Automated Weather Source, a network of weather stations that reported real-time observations to be used on broadcast television. Between 1994 and 2000 he served as occasional stand-in for CBS This Morning weather anchors Mark McEwen and Craig Allen.

Shutt also served on the National Science Foundation review panel for the National Science Education Standards.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States6