These Weather Girls Faced a Storm on Air

A bilingual blonde beauty, Cristina Blackwell was born in San Antonia to a Mexican mother and a father from Alabama. Blackwell spent many years of her childhood moving around and was consequently a victim of bullying. Blackwell graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009 with a double major in speech and communications. Throughout her career, she has broadcasted in both Spanish and English for Univision Network as well as Kens-TV 5 Eyewitness News, where she is still located today.

Maria Quiban is currently a weather anchor on KTTV in Los Angeles. Born in the Philippines, Quiban moved with her family to Honolulu, Hawaii at age nine. She grew up in Hawaii and would later study journalism at the University of Hawaii. She began working at the NBC affiliate KHNL in Honolulu before leaving the island and moving on to a job in Los Angeles at the Orange County Newschannel in 1998. She stayed there for two years before moving to KTTV.

Blonde bombshell Chita Craft was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and attended school at Arizona State University and Mississippi State University. Today, Craft works on KHOU 11 News This Morning in Houston, delivering the weather as a meteorologist. One can only assume that Chita is a morning person, considering her coverage airs daily between 4:30 AM and 9:00 AM. Before moving to Houston in 2011, Craft worked in Redding, California for KRCR, where she won the title of Best Media Personality two years straight.

Jackie Johnson is currently a weather forecaster for KCBS-TV news at 5, 6, and 11:00 PM in Los Angeles, California. She also does radio broadcasts for CBS's KNX1070. Her career began as a weekend weather anchor for WCTV-TV in Tallahassee, Florida. She would later move on to a job with WSVN-TV in Miami as a reporter and weathercaster. Before starting at KCBS-TV in 2010, Johnson worked at KCAL 9 News. She has appeared as a meteorologist or newscaster in several popular films.

The Armenian-born Araksya Karapetyan currently works for KTTV out of Los Angeles on the morning news and entertainment show, Good Day L.A. Karapetyan grew up in Palos Verdes, California and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in international relations and broadcast journalism. Her television career began in Los Angeles, where she interned at KABC-TV and KFI 640 AM radio out of Burbank, California. Outside of California, Karapetyan has also worked as an anchor and reporter for networks in Idaho, and Oregon.