Robert Elton "Bob" Stokes, Jr. (born January 1958) is an American

United States

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 television meteorologist, and formerly for The Weather Channel from 1996 through 2008. He co-anchored the weekend morning show Weekend Outlook

Weekend Outlook

Weekend Outlook was a weekend morning weather program on The Weather Channel. It was comparable to First Outlook, but with a different focus: Weekend Outlook was geared toward weekend planning and forecasts, compared to the commuter/straightforward style of First Outlook...

during his last several years at the station.

A native of Taipei

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, Taiwan

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, Stokes graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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 with a B.A. in radio

Radio

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, television

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 and film

Film

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 and holds a Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University

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. He had also been a member of the American Meteorological Society

American Meteorological Society

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 and held their seal of approval.

Prior to joining The Weather Channel in June 1996, he had worked at KFSM-TV

KFSM-TV

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, KARK-TV

KARK-TV

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, WROC-TV

WROC-TV

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, WTVF

WTVF

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 and WREG-TV

WREG-TV

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.

He has been successfully sued in arbitration by former co-anchor Hillary Andrews for sexual harassment, in which Andrews alleged that he said sexual things to her.