Pedram Javaheri is one of the most popular and richest Meteorology who was born on May 24, 1983 in Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran. In the course of his stay living in California, Javaheri received an Emmy nomination for his outstanding performance in the weather category at the San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Awards. In August of 2010, Iranian.com honored him as its Iranian of the Day. It was his part in the CNN weather team that was awarded the famous Peabody Award for its coverage of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On March 11, 2011, in the aftermath of the devastating Japanese earthquake, he and CNN U.S. meteorologist Chad Myers became the first duo in CNN’s history to simultaneously forecast and cover the resulting tsunami and its impact to a global audience.
In 2008, a duopoly station on the California’s Central Coast hired him to be the environmental reporter and to report on his weather report as a meteorologist on KCOY, KKFX, KION and KCBA. The station had an audience of more than 500,000 viewers on television. While in California He covered a variety of significant occasions. For example, in the year 2008, he reported from the site of the Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur The second most expensive forest fire ever recorded to ever occur in U.S. history. Then, in June of 2009, he was the sole reporter on the market to report for the Michael Jackson memorial service at the Staples Center following the winning of in a draw to go to the memorial service.
Javaheri began his career as a news anchor for Arizona State University in 2002. He was in charge and created the school’s first weather department for NewsWatch TV, an in-school news channel that was broadcast across all of the State of Arizona. Just one week before the end of his studies, he accepted an appointment as a meteorologist within Utah in KCSG. He was then elevated to chief meteorologist and was in charge of the entire weather department.
He joined CNN in June 2010 and now resides in Atlanta.
