Channel 2 Action News has hired a new meteorologist Brian Monahan.
Monahan comes from a sister Cox station in Seattle. He started this week at the office and will work evenings on weekends and fill in during the week. He will also be active on the Web and social media. His on-air debut has not been set but it should be relatively soon.
David Chandley departed voluntarily over the summer with a desire to be a chief meteorologist somewhere else.
Monahan joins Glenn Burns, Brad Nitz, Karen Minton and Katie Walls.
Coincidentally, he and Walls both received meteorology masters degrees at Penn State - at different times. Walls herself just joined the team over the summer.
"My background is in severe weather and this is a really good severe weather market at certain times of the year," he said. And he can't wait to learn from Burns, the station's chief meteorologist.
Monahan has previously worked at Scranton, Penn., Fort Myers and Orlando before Seattle.
"My parents now live in Florida so I was looking to get back to the Southeast," he said. "The opportunity to come to WSB was a perfect fit."
Channel 2 is the only network in town with five meteorologists.
Channel 2 operates under the Cox Media Group along with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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