Mari Ramos

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Mari Ramos is a weather anchor for CNN in Atlanta. She presents weather segments on CNN Today, the evening edition of Business International and World News. Ramos also appears occasionally on CNN/US, Headline News and Airport Network. She also presents special severe weather reports on CNN Espanol.

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Ramos was born in Nicaragua, but moved to the United States when she was only 8 years old.

Ramos received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and broadcast journalism from Florida International University in Miami. Currently, Ramos is working toward Broadcast Meteorologist Certification from Mississippi State University.

Ramos began her broadcasting career at WPLG, an ABC affiliate in Miami, where as an intern she practiced newsgathering and writing for the station's evening newscasts. Ramos worked at The Weather Channel as an on-camera meteorologist and reporter for the Latin America division of the network, before joining CNN in 1999.

She is fluent in English and Spanish and speaks conversational French.