Craig Allen (meteorologist)
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Craig Allen (born January 25, 1957, Brooklyn, New York) is a meteorologist whose weather reports used to be heard weekdays on WCBS Newsradio 880 (880 AM radio) in New York City and globally on Audacy.com. He also does freelance forecasting for the News 12 Networks. He recently returned to CBS2 Weekend mornings to help out the First Alert Weather Team after the death of one of their members
Allen previously worked for WCBS-TV until September 2006 including CBS This Morning from 1996-1999. He has also done part time work for WNYW-TV and was the weekend meteorologist at WPIX-TV from 2010 to 2020. Allen is a graduate of Farmingdale High School. He earned his bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University in 1979 and has been the chief meteorologist on WCBS since 1981.
On April 27, 2021, Allen began his 40th year with WCBS-AM/880. He is now the longest running primary meteorologist on a radio station in the country according to CBS News, the New York Daily News and an interview with Jerry Barmash from the New York Examiner/Fish Bowl NY.[1]
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[edit]- ^ "Craig Allen, WCBS 880 Longtime Meteorologist, Gets Three Year Extension - FishbowlNY". Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
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