Topper Shutt
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Topper Shutt | |
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| Born | Charles Shutt [1] |
| Occupation | Television Meteorologist |
| Notable credit | WUSA-TV Chief Meteorologist |
| Children | 3 daughters |
| Website | http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/toppershutt.html Topper's Blog |
Charles "Topper" Shutt is Chief Meteorologist at WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C., and forecaster for WHUR-FM.
In 1981, Shutt began his television weather career with CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, working as a weather producer and substitute weather anchor. In 1984, he moved on to a weekday weather anchor position at WTVK-TV (now WVLT-TV) in Knoxville, Tennessee. He spent a year, from 1987 to 1988, as weekend weather anchor at WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1988, he joined WFMY sister station WUSA, also at that time beginning to supply to forecasts to WHUR-FM. In 1992, he co-founded Automated Weather Source, a network of weather stations that reported real-time observations to be used on broadcast television. Between 1994 and 2000 he served as occasional stand-in for CBS This Morning weather anchors Mark McEwen and Craig Allen.
Shutt also served on the National Science Foundation review panel for the National Science Education Standards.[2]
