Introduction :
- Paul Konrad has made watching the Chicago weather fun for more than twenty years, and we hope he sticks around for another decade to continue informing us about the Windy City.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Konrad was born in April 1965 in Naperville, Illinois. He and his brother Christopher started a tradition of sneaking into a parade on the fourth of July each year, playing Yankee Doodle Dandy on their trumpets. In the third year, brothers John and Jason were added to their ensemble, named Konrad Brothers Drum and Bugle Corp. “The crowds appreciate our footwork” he says of this annual tradition!
- Paul is a graduate of Waubonsie Valley High School, class of 1983. He liked Austrian folk music and Vienna Choir Boys music. He also had a sense of grand dry humor and quick wit so this might not qualify as a “typical” childhood.
- He is a graduate of DePaul University Goodman School of Drama with a B.A. in Acting (class of 1987). Later, he received a M.A. in Speech, Radio, Television, and Film from Northwestern University (class of 1988) & also studied meteorology at Mississippi State University. He says his background in drama helps him deal with on-air drama queens and “has really paid off.”
- Currently, Paul is the father of four children, he spends a lot of time playing hide-and-seek, frequently getting work done in a closet while the children search for him. “Lately they have been onto me and I can’t get anything done.”
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Paul began his career in Montgomery, Alabama, with WAKA-TV and then headed to WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida, as a weathercaster. He frequently displays humor and significant personal investment in his reporting, even the occasional tirade against viewers who complain about his forecasting. However, weathercasters can’t be accurate all the time, right?
- Currently, Konrad is a nine-time Emmy award-winning Chicago WGN morning news anchor, also hosting the semi-weekly segment called Courtesy Desk where viewers post suggestions and Friday Forecaster encouraging local elementary students to be involved in meteorology.
- He is a magnet of creativity, and a face Chicagoans have come to trust, especially after when Sinclair purchased WGN-TV. He calmed their emotional storms by saying that his colleagues and himself are “leaders in innovation and technology, and that’s what sets them apart.”
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- Paul was a Youth Minister for two years at Eastwood Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, Alabama, from 1988 to 1990.
- Konrad played a waiter in the movie Felicity in 1998.
- When asked about any special crusades, Paul funnily suggested we should get more work out of horses, insisting, The great majority of them are standing around on very large parcels of valuable real estate doing absolutely nothing. They either need to be productive members of our society (as they were 100 years ago) or should be deported to Canada.
- Always one to make the audience laugh, Paul supports local charities and encourages everyone to keep life light.
- Marital Status / Married? : Yes
- Paul Konrad Height : 5′9″
- Children / No of Kids : 4
- Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race : White
- Nationality : American
