The Weather Channel’s Ari Sarsalari Also Joins FOX Weather Team
NEW YORK — August 5, 2024 — FOX Weather, FOX News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television “FAST” weather service, has signed Mike Seidel as a meteorologist and storm specialist, announced its president, Sharri Berg. Seidel, who was most recently at The Weather Channel, made his FOX Weather debut over the weekend in Florida covering the start of now Hurricane Debby and continued live coverage through the overnight hours when it made landfall. Additionally, Ari Sarsalari has departed The Weather Channel to join the FOX Weather team effective today.
In making the announcement, Berg said, “We are thrilled to add Mike to our outstanding lineup of meteorologists at FOX Weather as we move into the peak of hurricane season. His decades of experience will prove to be invaluable as we continue to grow our best-in-class weather network.”
Seidel added, “I’m looking forward to continuing my passion for storm coverage on FOX Weather, especially with the forecast of a very busy hurricane season.”
Seidel joins FOX Weather after spending more than 30 years at The Weather Channel. Logging over 25,000 live shots throughout his career, he has covered every major weather event of the past three decades, including Hurricanes Katrina, Ian, Harvey, Irma, and Irene, among others as well as 100 tropical storms, numerous snow and ice storms, tornado outbreaks and nor’easters across the country throughout his illustrious career. He has also covered weather from several sporting events including the World Series, the Indianapolis 500, the MLB All-Star Game, The PGA Tour events and multiple NFL football games.
He got his start in the business at his hometown station WMDT-TV (ABC) in Salisbury, Maryland, before moving on to NBC’s WYFF-TV in Greenville, South Carolina. He returned to Salisbury as a meteorologist for CBS affiliate WBOC-TV until he left to join The Weather Channel in 1992. Seidel holds a master’s degree in meteorology from Penn State University.
Sarsalari most recently served as a meteorologist at The Weather Channel for nearly a decade. Prior to his tenure there, he worked as a meteorologist at ABC’s WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Alabama, and CBS affiliate WOWK-TV in West Virginia.
FOX Weather is a 24/7 free ad-supported television service (FAST) operated by FOX News Media. The service builds upon FOX News Channel’s expansive news gathering units & FOX Television Stations’ (FTS) added resources with a combined 120 meteorologists for a comprehensive suite of weather products featuring local, regional, and national reporting, in addition to live programming. Utilizing multiple radar systems, including an immersive mobile 3D radar, FOX Weather offers users an innovative approach to forecasting, including coverage surrounding all weather patterns, from immediate to long-term. Available at foxweather.com and through the FOX Weather app for iOS and Android, FOX Weather is on internet-connected TVs via the FOX News app, Cox Communications, Samsung TV Plus, Tubi, Fire TV Channels, Amazon Freevee, Amazon News, YouTube TV, YouTube.com, The Roku Channel, DIRECTV STREAM, Hulu + Live TV, TCLtv+, LG Channels, Fubo, Xumo Play, Vizio Watchfree+, Sling Freesteam, Audacy, Plex, Verizon Fios, Spectrum, Optimum and DISH Network. FOX Weather is also accessible across FTS’s full Diginet footprint, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Washington, Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, Detroit, Orlando, Milwaukee, and Austin.
