Kait Parker is an atmospheric scientist who recently worked for weather.com and The Weather Channel app. ^[1] She can also occasionally be seen on Good Morning America where she fills-in for meteorologist Rob Marciano on weekends. ^[2] Prior to her role with weather.com, she was an on-camera meteorologist and host of America's Morning Headquarters Weekend Edition alongside Reynolds Wolf . She left The Weather Channel television network in early 2016. ^[3] As of Labor Day weekend in 2019, she has been noticed contributing to weather.com, particularly in presenting and analyzing information about Hurricane Dorian . ^[4]

Parker made national headlines ^[5] in 2016 with a rebuttal to Breitbart , a far-right website that used a video of her in an article claiming that the Earth was cooling rather than warming. ^[6] The Webby Awards chose Parker's video as an honoree in the category of viral in 2017. ^[7]

In 2016, Parker released a mini- documentary called Toxic Lake: The Untold Story of Lake Okeechobee about cyanobacteria ( blue-green algae ) and water management in Florida where she was both producer and correspondent. The project has gone on to win The Society of Professional Journalists ' top honor for Digital Video and nominated for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards for Outstanding Science and Environmental Reporting. ^{[8] [9]}

She was also named to the Grist 50 list of Climate Fixers in 2017 and was featured in Marie Claire Magazine's first issue on sustainability. ^{[10] [11]}

Parker received a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Science from The University of Missouri in May 2009. Parker has also earned her Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society . ^[12]

Parker began her career by filling in at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo., in 2006 while still enrolled at the University of Missouri. Upon graduation in May 2009, she became weekday morning and midday meteorologist for WAKA-TV in Montgomery, AL. ^[13] From there she went on to WPTV-TV ^[14] in West Palm Beach, FL where she was first hired as weekend meteorologist but was quickly put into a weekday role. Parker left WPTV-TV in early 2014 and went to work for The Weather Channel . ^[15]

Parker was born and raised in Grapevine, Texas , and often points to her mother and father as the source of her interest in science. She is currently married and announced her first pregnancy in April 2020. ^[16]