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. Roker was born in Queens, New York, the son of Isabel, of Jamaican descent, and Albert Lincoln Roker, Sr., a labor relations negotiator, bus driver and dispatcher of Bahamian descent. Roker initially wanted to be a cartoonist. He was raised Catholic (in the faith of his mother) and graduated from Xavier High School in Manhattan. He worked on several projects as a member of the school's Cartooning & Illustration Club. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego where he double-majored in
Today's forecast ... DRAMA!!!!!Local NBC weathergirl Elita Loresca issued an apology live on the air this morning ... after she was caught talking "smack" about Al Roker when she thought her… READ MORE >
Al Roker just learned the hard way that horses can be just as unpredictable as the weather -- when a horseback interview with a Kentucky Derby legend went terribly wrong ... on live TV. Moments… READ MORE >
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Watch Al Roker's shock and awe on the Weather Channel this morning when it dawns on him that there are three brothas doing weather at the same time.Co-anchors, Alex Wallace and Scott Williams were… READ MORE >
Al Roker made a big no-no when he whipped out his camera phone to Twitter from jury duty -- and according to the "Today" show graphics department and Meredith Vieira, who was in London this… READ MORE >
Al Roker just pulled a big no-no -- according to a court official we spoke with in New York. Al -- who is on jury duty -- took a pic in the jury assembly room in a NYC courtroom. The pic shows… READ MORE >
Damn you, Willard Scott! Thanks to you, our heads are scarred forever with the mental image of Al Roker and his "chilly willy." See Also TMZ Hits Al Roker Like a Hurricane READ MORE >
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