CONNECTICUT – NBC Connecticut meteorologist Rachael Jay announced this week that she will leave the station in October after nearly three years.
“Connecticut, our time together is coming to an end,” Jay wrote on Facebook. “I am ending my time at NBC Connecticut.”
“Thank you to all of you – our viewers, our neighbors – for tuning in and sharing your stories/pictures/reports with me over the past nearly three years. Thanks for letting me be a nerd and share science with you – from solar eclipses to space station flyovers to the Northern Lights and more!”
Jay’s last day at the station will be October 20. She did not say where she is going, but the Penn State graduate said she will announce that information in the future.
“The first station I ever set foot on was an NBC station,” wrote Jay, a Maryland native. “Since then, I’ve always wanted to work for the same company where I met my mentors in meteorology. Now I can say I’ve accomplished that goal. Working with this amazing, creative team also earned me my first professional accolades through Kids Connection.
“I was even able to fulfill another dream – I’m going to be the presenter of a children’s science program! The funny thing is: I had never told anyone about this dream before and yet somehow it came true.
“How could I not be grateful?”
A certified broadcast meteorologist by the American Meteorological Society, Jay received a bachelor’s degree in metrology with a minor in Spanish from Penn State.
She worked at HMTV6 in Hagerstown, Maryland, KWWL in Waterloo, Iowa, and WVEC in Norfolk, Virginia before her current job at WVIT-TV in Connecticut.
