Former KDKA Meteorologist Jeff Verszyla Returning To Local TV

PITTSBURGH, PA — Eighteen months after his abrupt departure from KDKA-TV, meteorologist Jeff Verszyla is returning to the local airwaves. Verszyla announced on Facebook that he will be doing fill-in work for WTAE beginning this weekend.

"I have been given an opportunity by the fine folks at WTAE Action Weather starting this Sunday," he said in the Facebook video.

That will mark Verszyla's first time on local TV since his unexpected firing from KDKA in December 2018 after nearly a quarter of a century at the station. Since then, he has kept a prominent presence on social media.

Verszyla holds a degree in broadcast communications and English from Allegheny College and a meteorology degree from Mississippi State. Before joining KDKA, he worked for a TV station in Texas and was an on-air personality and morning show producer at WVTY-FM and WRRK-FM in Pittsburgh.

Verszyla is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the National Weather Association and the International Association of Broadcast Meteorologists. He also has been a trained weather spotter for the Pittsburgh office of the National Weather Service.