Topper Shutt

Topper Shutt
Occupation	Television Meteorologist
Notable credit	WUSA-TV Chief Meteorologist
Children	3 daughters
Website	http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/toppershutt.html Topper's Blog

Topper Shutt is Chief Meteorologist at WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, DC and forecaster for WHUR-FM.

Career

In 1981, Shutt began his television weather career with CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, working as a weather producer and substitute weather anchor. In 1984,he moved on to a weekday weather anchor position at WTVK-TV (now WVLT-TV) in Knoxville, Tennessee. He spent a year, from 1987 to 1988, as weekend weather anchor at WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1988, he joined WFMY sister station WUSA, also at that time beginning to supply to forecasts to WHUR-FM. Between 1994 and 2000 he served as occasional stand-in for CBS This Morning weather anchors Mark McEwen and Craig Allen.

Biography

A childhood resident of the Washington area, Shutt graduated from Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland before attending Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut with a major in history. He went on to the University of Tennessee and the University of North Carolina at Asheville to study Meteoreology.

He is married with three daughters and lives in Potomac, Maryland.

Superbowl fame

Following a mention during the 2010 Superbowl, Shutt experienced a wave of attention, with his wikipedia entry experiencing massive amounts of vandalism.

Sources

• "Topper Shutt Bio". WUSA. Retrieved 2007-09-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)