“There are days during snow storms when I’m here or at a hotel or just not home for two, maybe even two and a half, three days at a stretch, kind of just come home, change my clothes and say hi to my kids, and it’s hard,” she said. And striking the work-family balance can be tough for a meteorologist. Her family is important to her, especially now that she has two young sons at home. Even while on her family’s annual vacation to the shore, her father will sometimes ask what the week is looking like. And so, when she took the job four and a half years ago and set up her social media accounts, she received a lot of congratulations and support from former classmates.Īnd, of course, her position has led to friends and family trying to get the inside scoop on the weather, which Kate is happy to provide. Having grown up in a small, tight-knit high school class of 229, Bilo said there was always a lot of support amongst her classmates. While many residents may not know she’s from the Phoenixville area, a lot of old friends and acquaintances did recognize her when she became a Greater Philadelphia television personality. “And I think my dad wishes it would have found me four years sooner, before he paid for a different degree from Penn State,” she added with a laugh, “but, you know, it all worked out in the end.” “They say the thing you’re supposed to be doing will find you if you don’t find it first, and it kind of found me,” she said.
Why didn’t I think about this and major in meteorology at Penn State?'”Īnd so AccuWeather paid for further schooling that led to a geosciences degree from Mississippi State University. “I thought, ‘This is what I should have been doing all along. “They started training me the next day, and I was hooked immediately,” Bilo said. On her first day she discovered they had been “looking forever” for someone to deliver Spanish-language forecasts, so she volunteered to be trained in forecasting, combining her two academic loves, Spanish and the weather. While applying to graduate schools after receiving degrees in Spanish and international business in 2003, Bilo took a job as an administrative assistant with AccuWeather, headquartered in State College. What followed, according to Bilo, was a domino effect.
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