Meteorologist Keenan Smith joins WXYZ-TV

WXYZ-TV is pleased to announce that Meteorologist Keenan Smith will be joining the Channel 7 Action News team on Action News This Morning and Action News at Noon.

Smith comes to WXYZ-TV, the ABC affiliate in Detroit, from Scripps station WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida. He has also worked at WGAL in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; WZBN in Trenton, New Jersey; WEEK in Peoria, Illinois; WLFL in Raleigh, North Carolina, and CLTV and WGN in Chicago. He was also an associate with NBC news, working with Dateline NBC, and NBC’s New York News Bureau.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Smith graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and earned a dual Master’s Degree in Domestic Policy and Urban & Regional Planning from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

Smith says he is anxious to return to an area with active weather conditions. “I’m thrilled to be moving back to the Midwest and back to a climate with four seasons. I’m also excited to be moving to the Detroit area. There’s a unity of spirit in the people in Southeast Michigan that you don’t find everywhere.”

Smith studied meteorology at Penn State, the College of DuPage in Chicago, Portland State and Oklahoma State. He was elected to full membership in the American Meteorological Society and holds the AMS Seal of Approval.

“We are extremely pleased to add Keenan to the Channel 7 weather team,” said WXYZ-TV News Director Tim Dye. “He has a broad range of weather experience, including eight years of forecasting weather in Chicago. He’s very familiar with the importance and challenges of forecasting weather in the upper Midwest.”

Smith will join Action News This Morning and Action News at Noon beginning in mid September.