Joe Witte

Joe Witte (born 1943) is a weekend weatherman for the broadcast television station WJLA in Washington, D.C., where he has been since 2003 and he is the voice of the NBC Today Show weather billboards.

Joe Witte started his career as a glaciologist for the USGS, working on the ice of South Cascade Glacier, WA. He was the principal investigator on ice island T-3 in the Arctic Ocean studying the Greenhouse infrared radiation budget as well as the ice crystals of the Arctic clouds, winter and summers. Next was 1 year at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, where original climate change computer modeling was created. For 3 years Joe Witte was the meteorologist on NBC's CNBC reporting on the weather's effects on the business world. Witte has worked for WCBS-TV, WABC-TV, and WNBC-TV in New York City, as well as at stations in Seattle, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Witte has also made appearances as meteorologist MSNBC. Witte served as the weatherman for the former NBC News program "NBC News at Sunrise" from 1983 to 1999, and Witte also served as the weatherman for "Sunday Today" from 1992 to 1999. Witte has also filled in for John Coleman on ABC's Good Morning America, and for Willard Scott, and Al Roker on NBC's "Today Show." He help make John Coleman's beta project tape for the initial Weather Channel. He continues to perform voiceover work for sponsor idents that appear before some segments of NBC's "Today."

Witte has often reported on "NBC Nightly News" and "Dateline NBC" as a weather expert and was chief meteorologist for NBC's Super Channel NBC Asia, and NBC Europe. Witte was on the air non-stop for Hurricane Gloria in 1985, and also for the Blizzard of 1996 for over eight hours each for both events. Local Emmys for Blizzard of 1996 and 2003's Hurricane Isabel are among his awards.