''Entertainment Tonight' allowed me into a world that very few people get to see - to learn things that were completely foreign to me,' explains Marciano. However, his decision to explore Hollywood's unpredictable (there's that word again) displays of human nature had nothing to do with our country's seemingly endless fascination with celebrity culture.įor Marciano, it was about curiosity and access, not actor and actress. Next up: Marciano served as co-anchor of 'Entertainment Tonight' from January 2013 to August 2014. His reports for CNN during Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earned him a Peabody Award. Marciano began working with CNN News Group as a news and weather anchor in 2003. In truth, don't most of our jobs slide along a continuum connecting Mother Nature to human nature? Aren't most of us seeking some sort of universal acceptance of ourselves, our product and/or service? What's more, is anyone immune to the perverse power of the unknown? The common thread? To make sense of the seemingly unpredictable - a skill possessed by few but beneficial to all. His subsequent career path has taken him from an exploration of Mother Nature to human nature and back to Mother Nature. The Glenville, Connecticut, native would go on to obtain a bachelor's degree in meteorology from Cornell University.Īfter college, a yet-to-be-weathered Marciano worked for a brokerage firm, an experience that suited his curious nature yet seemed to reflect the concept of 'whether' rather than 'weather.' 'There's a yin and yang in the market just as there's a yin and yang in the weather.' I remember lying in my backyard and looking at the snow coming down and wondering why it was falling on me.' 'Not only does weather impact what we do every day, but because all of our senses are engaged, everybody has an inherent interest in weather.'Īs for his dedication to debris clouds, dense fogs, dew points, diamond dust and diffluence, Marciano recalls: 'Everybody in my business has a story of their epiphany. 'Deep down I think everyone has a little 'weather geek' in them,' says Marciano. Though my subsequent tour of Marco's broadcast-friendly hot spots didn't produce a face-to-face Marciano meeting - he moves too fast - the appropriate use of another potentially weather-sensitive device brought us together: iPhone (and Twitter app). Or, to see a potential downpour of opportunity when others see only rain? In the end, what's life without a little invigorating storm chasing? My inspiration-starved inner essayist rejoiced: if Marciano is storm chasing a mere two miles away, wouldn't it be fun to chase the storm chaser and write about it? After all, isn't it important to constantly seek mutually beneficial connections? ('We'll be together.') To expect the unexpected? ('Whatever the weather.') I recently discovered that ABC News Senior Meteorologist Rob Marciano was broadcasting live from Marco Island during Tropical Storm Erika (i.e. Or this enduring favorite: 'Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, we'll be together whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.' No, not politics: the weather - our universal go-to subject when banter is required and common ground has yet to be unearthed. It does not store any personal data.Although countless topics find their way into day-to-day conversations, one has toppled the competition for centuries. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin.

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