Meteorologist Troy Bridges has years of experience covering the weather, everything from chasing tornadoes and tracking the tropics to forecasting ice storms and other dangerous conditions.
Most recently, Troy was the weekday morning meteorologist for CBS Detroit. While at Detroit's CBS-owned station WWJ-TV, Troy provided five and a half hours of live weather coverage every single day, forecasting many of Michigan's snow events as well as its beautiful summer days.
Before that, Troy was an award-winning morning and noon meteorologist on WKMG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Orlando, Florida, where he worked for 15 years, tracking many tropical storms along the way.
He landed his first job in TV at CBS affiliate WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia, while attending the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He worked as a one-man-band reporter, shooting video, writing and editing all of his news stories, often with only a few minutes to spare!
Troy was born and raised in nearby Warner Robins, Georgia.
He studied meteorology at Mississippi State University where he gained his certification as a meteorologist, and became meteorologist and news anchor at CBS affiliate WRDW-TV in Augusta. While there, Troy did weathercasts live from The Masters golf tournament for several years.
Troy was recognized by the Georgia Associated Press for "Best Weather" after his extended coverage of Tropical Storm Floyd live from the Carolina coast.
It was then off to chasing tornadoes in Oklahoma City at KFOR-TV, where Troy spent much of his time warning the people in the area about the threat of severe storms out in the field. Troy has lots of stories from those often dangerous experiences. He also spent many hours forecasting ice storms that left thousands without power across the nation's heartland, and he reported live from fast-moving wildfires fueled by Oklahoma's relentless winds.
Troy then moved on to KLRT-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, as their first-ever chief meteorologist, helping to build the entire weather department from the ground up as the station created its news department. During one memorable storm, Troy was on the air for eight hours nonstop, warning people about dangerous tornadoes and damaging winds. His evening newscast at KLRT earned an Emmy Award.
Troy holds the seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society.
