One of the Triangle’s favorite meteorologists is retiring this week
One of the Triangle’s all-time favorite weathermen is retiring.
Bill Reh, who has graced local airwaves for nearly 40 years, will deliver his last weather forecast this Friday, CBS 17 reported earlier this week.
Reh started his time in local weather with 13 years at WTVD ABC11 in Durham before a 5-year stint at WB22 in Raleigh. He has been at Raleigh’s WNCN CBS 17 (previously NBC 17) since 2004, serving as the weekday morning meteorologist.
Some of the big weather events Reh has covered during his time on central North Carolina airwaves are the deadly Red Springs tornado outbreak of 1984, the deadly Raleigh tornado of November 1988, Hurricane Fran in 1996, Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and the big “Snow Storm of the Century” in 2000.
According to his bio on the CBS 17 website, Reh also wrote and produced the exhibit “Ask a Meteorologist” for the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham.
He’s a graduate of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, with a double major in meteorology and broadcasting, and earned the American Meteorological Society Television Seal of Approval in 1984.
CBS 17 has been honoring Reh each morning this week during the morning newscasts. His last on-air forecast will be Friday morning.
This story was originally published December 14, 2022 at 1:01 PM.
