Biography
Lisa Meadows is an Emmy Award winning meteorologist for CBS in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She anchors the weather on WCCO Evening News on the weekends, WCCO Noon News from Monday to Wednesday, CBSN Minnesota from Saturday to Wednesday, and is a general assignment reporter Monday through Wednesday. When she is not anchoring the weather in studio, she is often out storm chasing with the CBS Mobile Weather Lab. While at WCCO she has also has done many CBS Network News hits covering big weather stories across the country.
One of Lisa’s most memorable moments at WCCO occurred during the cold outbreak of January 2019 in Alexandria, MN where she covered the coldest wind chill in the state, -63 degrees F.
“I remember building all these graphics in the hotel the night before we were to report on the morning show and when we got up we couldn’t use any of them, because none of the electronics would work. No cars in the parking lot could start and our camera cables were frozen solid, they wouldn’t bend. After a couple of hits, my boss called me and told me just to report from inside the hotel lobby, so we actually had a pretty good time with all the hotel guests having coffee and telling the story of how we were all stuck in frozen Alexandria.”
When not working or storm chasing, Lisa volunteers as a K9 Search & Rescue handler with the Northstar Search & Rescue Team. She and her K9 “Thunder” are Wilderness II Tracking/Trailing Certified. They deploy with Northstar SAR to help locate missing persons across the upper midwest. She is a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Lisa is also a Certified National Search And Rescue Technician II.
Born and raised in the Midwest, Lisa has always been fascinated with storms and told her parents she was going to grow up to be a “storm chaser." She obtained a B.S. in Meteorology-Math Minor & B.A. Communications from Valparaiso University. While at VU she was a member of the Valparaiso University Storm Chase Team and completed a storm chasing class which included traveling 5,626 miles across the Great Plains over 10 days chasing storms.
She has covered various weather conditions while working for CBS affiliates across the country: record setting drought in Lubbock, TX; covering severe storms in Central IL; and historic wildfires in Sacramento, CA. While broadcasting for CBS Sacramento, she also had the opportunity to explain in depth the forecast and scientific details during the record setting 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which brought extreme devastation from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
One of Lisa’s most memorable moments at WCCO occurred during the cold outbreak of January 2019 in Alexandria, MN where she covered the coldest wind chill in the state, -63 degrees F.
“I remember building all these graphics in the hotel the night before we were to report on the morning show and when we got up we couldn’t use any of them, because none of the electronics would work. No cars in the parking lot could start and our camera cables were frozen solid, they wouldn’t bend. After a couple of hits, my boss called me and told me just to report from inside the hotel lobby, so we actually had a pretty good time with all the hotel guests having coffee and telling the story of how we were all stuck in frozen Alexandria.”
When not working or storm chasing, Lisa volunteers as a K9 Search & Rescue handler with the Northstar Search & Rescue Team. She and her K9 “Thunder” are Wilderness II Tracking/Trailing Certified. They deploy with Northstar SAR to help locate missing persons across the upper midwest. She is a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). Lisa is also a Certified National Search And Rescue Technician II.
Born and raised in the Midwest, Lisa has always been fascinated with storms and told her parents she was going to grow up to be a “storm chaser." She obtained a B.S. in Meteorology-Math Minor & B.A. Communications from Valparaiso University. While at VU she was a member of the Valparaiso University Storm Chase Team and completed a storm chasing class which included traveling 5,626 miles across the Great Plains over 10 days chasing storms.
She has covered various weather conditions while working for CBS affiliates across the country: record setting drought in Lubbock, TX; covering severe storms in Central IL; and historic wildfires in Sacramento, CA. While broadcasting for CBS Sacramento, she also had the opportunity to explain in depth the forecast and scientific details during the record setting 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which brought extreme devastation from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
