Topper Shutt

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Topper Shutt

Occupation	Television Meteorologist

Topper Shutt is Chief Meteorologist at WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, DC since 1988. He has also provides weather forecasts for WHUR-FM since November of 1988. He is married and has three daughters and lives in Potomac, Maryland.

Topper began his television weather career as a weather producer and substitute weather anchor with CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1981 to 1984. He moved on to a weekday weather anchor position at WTVK-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1984 to 1987. He then worked as weekend weather anchor at WUSA sister station WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina before moving to WUSA in 1988. He has also filled in occasionally for CBS This Morning weather anchors Mark McEwen and Craig Allen from 1994 to 2000.

Topper grew up in the Washington area and graduated from Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland earned a Bachelor's degree in history from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied Meteorology at the University of Tennessee and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

In 1993, Topper co-founded Automated Weather Source, a company that places automated weather stations in elementary schools throughout the Washington DC area. WUSA uses data obtained from these stations weather segments.^[1]