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Al Roker

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 08: (L-R) Al Roker and Ashton Eaton, US Olympic hopeful attends NBC TODAY Show to announce P&G's 'Thank you, Mom gift on May 8, 2012 in New York City.

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    Thursday morning, "The Today Show's" Al Roker crooned about summerlike temperatures across the country: 82 degrees in Washington, D.C., 72 in Chicago, 67 in Minneapolis. NBCs telecast then segued to the local forecast: Forties and rain on Thursday, Friday,   Read more »

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About Al Roker

Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American television weatherman as well as an actor and book author. He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his new morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, which airs weekdays from 6am to 7am ET, one hour earlier than Today. He holds an expired American Meteorological Society Television Seal, #238. Writing with Dick Lochte, Roker began a series of murder mysteries in 2009 that feature Billy Blessing, a celebrity chef turned amateur detective. The second book in the series, The Midnight Show Murders (2010), was nominated for a 2011 Nero Award.

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