Emmy® Award-winning meteorologist Violeta Yas is a member of NBC 4 New York’s Storm Team 4 weather team.
Prior to joining WNBC in March 2022, Yas was part of Telemundo62, where she served as chief meteorologist, and NBC10 in Philadelphia for nearly nine years. She was part of the team that launched Noticiero Telemundo62 at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. in 2014. Her weather career began in 2010, when she joined AccuWeather as a bilingual broadcaster.
Violeta has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, ABC World News Now, The Big Ten Network, Fox Sports, several Telemundo and Univision affiliates, ZBM-TV (Bermuda), and various other Spanish networks across Latin America. Throughout her career she has been nominated for four regional Emmys as 'Best Weather Anchor' and has also won five Emmy awards for her severe weather and climate coverage.
Violeta is a lead broadcast ambassador for the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee for Hispanic and Latinx Advancement. Through this role, she leads a team of broadcast meteorologists from across the country in identifying, planning, and generating tangible weather resources for the Spanish-speaking community.
In 2023, Violeta’s longtime dedication to her community earned her AMS’s prestigious Award for Early Career Professional Achievement, voted on by a committee of her peers. This award recognizes early-career individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their profession, and those whose work and dedication have had a profound impact on the weather, water, and climate science community.
Also, a strong advocate of The Boys & Girls Club organization, Violeta was inducted into the Boys & Girls Clubs’ Wall of Fame in 2022. She was recognized for her passion for mentorship, and for serving as a role model to local youth and encouraging them to pursue their dreams. She also regularly visits local classrooms to explain weather to young children and read her bilingual children’s book, The Meteorologist in Me, published in Spanish in 2019.
In 2018, Yas was selected as one of PhillyMan Magazine’s Women of the Year for her philanthropic efforts. The honor culminated in a charity gala, where she supported the Boys & Girls Club of Kensington—one of the most underfunded areas of Philadelphia.
As a Rutgers University graduate, she also serves as a Media Mentor at Rutgers, through the Institute for Women’s Leadership. She regularly lends her time to Rutgers Future Scholars—a program that identifies and gives academically promising low-income high school students the opportunity for a college education.
Yas was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina and raised in North Jersey. She attended Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism & Media Studies, with a minor in Spanish. She later earned her Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology with Mississippi State University.
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