Julie Bologna is an American

United States

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 television meteorologist who was the chief meteorologist at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 until 2011.

Early life

Bologna was born in Center Township, Pennsylvania

Center Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

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. She graduated from Penn State University in 1994 with a degree in journalism and received her broadcast meteorology certificate from Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University

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.

While at Penn State, she received an internship at WDVE

WDVE

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 in Pittsburgh.

Career

After graduation, Bologna began her career at low-power WMBA-AM in Ambridge, Pennsylvania

Ambridge, Pennsylvania

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. She then worked at stations in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Altoona

Altoona, Pennsylvania

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, Steubenville, and Wheeling

Wheeling, West Virginia

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 before becoming the morning and noon meteorologist at WPXI

WPXI

WPXI, channel 11, is the NBC-affiliated television station for Western Pennsylvania that is licensed to Pittsburgh. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 48 from a transmitter located on the north side of Pittsburgh. Owned by Cox Enterprises, the station has studios in the...

 in Pittsburgh in 1999. In 2004, she left WPXI for a similar position with KTVT

KTVT

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 in Dallas-Fort Worth before returning to WPXI in 2008.

Bologna left WPXI on July 13, 2011.

Bologna has received two local Emmys for her weather reporting.

She has also co-authored a book entitled The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extreme Weather.