Paul Dellegatto
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Paul Dellegatto is an American television meteorologist. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, he is the chief meteorologist at WTVT in Tampa, Florida. Before coming to WTVT, he became a Meteorologist for WGME-TV in Portland, Maine in 1984. He then went on to become the Chief Meteorologist at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has been with WTVT since 1990, and took over for Roy Leep as the chief meteorologist in 1997. He was the first broadcast meteorologist to regularly use the computer generated "spaghetti models" on the air to aid in hurricane tracking.[citation needed] He is AMS Certified and one of the 5 meteorologists that are certified broadcast meteorologists of the WTVT weather department. The only other certified broadcast meteorologists outside of WTVT in the market are Dick Fletcher of WTSP, Mike Clay and Juli Marquez of Bay News 9, and Steve Jerve of WFLA.
[edit] External links
- Official WTVT bio
- Print coverage of Dellegatto
- WTVT Weather History (includes information about Dellegatto)