Tom Skilling Biography and Wiki
Tom Skilling is an American television meteorologist. Since 1978, he has worked as a meteorologist at WGN-TV in Chicago.
Tom Skilling Age and Birthday
Tom born Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, III is 71 years old as of 2023. He was born on February 20, 1952, in Aurora, Illinois, in the United States of America. He celebrates his birthday every February 20th every year.
Tom Skilling Height and Weight
Skilling stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m). However, information regarding his other body measurements is still under review.
Tom Skilling Education
In 1970, Tom moved to Madison, WI to study meteorology and journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while continuing to work in radio and television.
Tom Skilling Family, Parents and Brother
Skilling was born to Betty and Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, Jr. as the first of four children. His father was a sales manager for an Illinois valve company. His Younger brother is discredited former Enron CEO, Jeff Skilling.
Skilling was accused of conspiracy, insider trading, making false claims to auditors, and securities fraud, and originally sentenced to 24 years in jail. On December 13, 2006, until 2018, Jeff began his term, housed at the Montgomery Federal Prison Camp, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.
However, on Friday, 21 June 2013, a federal judge approved a deal resentencing the younger Skilling to 14 years, minus the time of six years which he had already served. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Jeff Skilling was scheduled for release on February 21, 2019, but was released from prison and sent to a halfway house in Texas to serve out his prison sentence on August 30, 2018.
Tom Skilling Salary
WGN-TV news salaries range from $42,335 to $148,566 per annum. However, these statistics can differ greatly depending on the employee’s level of seniority at issue. We don’t have Tom’s exact salary and net worth at the moment but we will keep track and update once it’s available.
Tom Skilling Net Worth
Skilling is estimated to have a net worth of $18 million, as of November 2020. Despite his enormous net worth, he has kept most of his property details undisclosed. He is considered as one of the richest meteorologists with an undisclosed salary that is rumored to be a 7-digit figure of annual income.
Tom Skilling Career
Tom began his broadcasting career at the age of 14 while in high school, working for WKKD and WKKD-FM. Skilling noticed that the WKKD predictions were unreliable because they were for Chicago and not Aurora, so he approached WKKD and offered to forecast the weather for several days, given that he would be hired to host his own weather program if his predictions were correct. Skilling’s predictions were precise, and he was hired three times a day to forecast Aurora’s weather. He started working for WLXT-TV in Aurora at the age of 18.
Tom Skilling WGN-TV
On August 13, 1978, Skilling returned to the Chicago area and joined WGN-TV He is currently the chief meteorologist at WGN-TV’s and is said to be the highest-paid local broadcast meteorologist in the United States. He writes the daily weather column in the Chicago Tribune. His weather broadcasts have always used the latest technology in computer imagery and animation techniques.
Tom has long been praised for his in-depth reports and striking accuracy, perhaps best highlighted by his correctly predicting the Groundhog Day blizzard almost two weeks before it paralyzed the Chicago area. “Skillful”, as his late WGN-TV colleague Bob Collins called him, was consulted for the movie The Weather Man, which was set in Skilling’s hometown of Chicago at a fictionalized version of WGN-TV. Skilling is under contract at WGN until 2022.
Tom Skilling AMS and Fermilab
Skilling is a member of the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association. Additionally, He hosts annual tornado and severe weather seminars at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. 2013 marked the 32nd year of the seminar and the first that featured presentations specifically on climate change.
Tom Skilling Weight loss| Surgery
WGN-Ch. 9 Chief Meteorologist Skilling is resumed his work in April 2020 after undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, which he called “a life-altering experience.”
Skilling, 68, said he has lost 50 pounds since the March 4, 2020, procedure at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Doctors also found and repaired a small hernia, he said.
He said he’s still in some pain, but he’s excited to get back to work. He will be wearing new suits, and he will be working remotely. He has transformed his North Side home into a TV studio to deliver his weather forecasts during the coronavirus crisis. Meteorologists, anchors, and reporters from other Chicago TV stations also have been broadcasting from home.
Skilling said he couldn’t walk three blocks or climb a flight of stairs without getting winded before the surgery. He also worried about suffering the same fate as his father, Thomas, who died in 2006 at the age of 83.