Mike Griffin
NBC 6 Weekend Meteorologist
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A native of North Texas, NBC 6 WeatherPlus Meteorologist Mike Griffin embraces the swelter of Central Texas summers and can tackle the wrath of "Blue Northerners" of the Southern Plains in the winter.

Mike is glad to be back in Texas and closer to home after a few years tracking Hurricanes along the Louisiana Gulf coast. In the year 2005, Mike had to face the huge challenge of tracking Hurricanes Katrina and Rita back to back hitting the state.

Hurricane Rita, a powerful category 3 storm, hit Mike’s area of Southwest Louisiana where he was working at KPLC-TV in Lake Charles. It slammed ashore with the force of winds up to 120 miles per hour.

It was Mike’s first encounter with such a massive and devastating storm but an experience which he will never forget. Mike won several awards from the Associated Press for his coverage of tracking Hurricane Rita and the aftermath.

Mike was inspired to pursue a career in weather early in life, when a tornado ripped through his Dallas, TX neighborhood in 1985. This led him to study Meteorology for fifteen years starting at an early age.

He not only enjoys the science of forecasting, but also capturing weather on camera. He earned his bachelor's degree in Meteorology from Texas A&M University in 2002 and frequently goes to Aggieland to catch a football game at Kyle Field.

He has learned his weather techniques from such weather icons such as Rebecca Miller, the Morning Meteorologist at KXAS NBC 5 in Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX. He worked with her for a semester on developing on-camera skills.

He also worked along side Chief Meteorologist Bob French at KBTX in Bryan/College Station, TX for a year.

He was also on the storm chasing team at Texas A&M, which he chased several tornadoes across our area of Tornado Alley.

He witnessed first hand the flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in Houston, TX during June 2001. He was in Tropical Storm Faye when it hit the upper Texas coast around Galveston, TX.

Mike likes to hike, camp, play tennis, and anything outdoors. He adopted a cat named "Stormy" from the Humane Society. When he is not chasing storms or hurricanes, he usually likes to go traveling.

Mike is a member of both the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association.

He was recently awarded the prestigious AMS Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society and he holds the NWA Television Weathercaster Seal of Approval, both given to broadcast meteorologists who have shown competency and on-air performance skills that are above standards.

You can catch his accurate forecast on the weekend edition of NBC 6 News. If you have a weather question or if you would like him to come to your group to speak about weather, you can email him at mgriffin@kcentv.com.