CT TV News Station Adds New Meteorologist

CONNECTICUT, CT — Jill Gilardi is joining the WFSB 3-TV team as a meteorologist doing weekend evening newscasts and stories throughout the week.

Gilardi is currently a meteorologist with 6 WBRC in Birmingham, AL. She joined the station's weather team in 2013.

"I am so thankful for my past endeavors and excited for my future with WFSB," Gilardi wrote in a tweet. "I can't wait to take you all on my new adventure!"

Gilardi has "covered blizzards, ice storms, floods, heat waves, tornado outbreaks, flash freezes, tropical systems, and arctic outbreaks," according to her WBRC biography.

Gilardi studied weather at one of the country's top schools for meteorologists, Lyndon State College in Vermont, and earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal from the American Meteorological Society. "She calls herself a weather nerd who has a way of communicating the weather and relating it to daily life in a fun and easy-to-understand way," her bio reads.

WFSB 3-TV Meteorologist Mike Slifer welcomed Gilardi, writing in a tweet: "It's great to have another native New Englander on the team!"

Gilardi said that she made the move in part to be closer to family. She is originally from Massachusetts.