Background

Audrey Puente was born on March 3, 1970, in New York City, New York, to Tito Puente, a Latin percussionist, and Margaret Asencio, a housekeeper. Her ethnicity is Caucasian, and her nationality is American. She graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Communication. Mississippi State University awarded her a Master of Science in Geosciences with a major in Meteorology for her master's degree.

Audrey is one of five children in a family of five. She was reared in New York and her two brothers, Tito Puente Jr. and Richard Puente, in the United States. Richard Puente, her younger brother, died in 2004 as a result of a head fracture. Tito Puente Jr, his other brother, succeeded their father as a bandleader in New York City.

Personal Life

Jay Thompson, Puente's husband, is the love of her life. The pair married in 2004 and have been together for more than a decade. There have been no reports of problems in their lovely marriage. Puente has managed to balance her personal and business lives admirably. She is a beautiful mother and a decent wife.

Santana, Mateo, and Lola Jaye, Puente's three children, were born to her husband. The family is based in New York City. In 2005, she became a mother for the first time, giving birth to Santana Thompson.

Puente became a mother for the second time in 2007 when she and her husband welcomed their second child, Mateo Thompson. In August of 2010, she and her loving husband Jay Thompson welcomed their third child, Lola Jaye Thompson, into the world.

Audrey Puente's net worth

Audrey Puente's net worth is believed to be $3 million. Her ability in her field and her hard work and dedication have enabled her to amass a significant net worth. Her monthly paycheck is around $250,000. She and her family live a lavish lifestyle. She enjoys taking her family on vacations to other places. In an interview, she stated that she had created her own company that manufactures clothes with colorful crystals. She is a fashionista who has shared numerous photos of herself wearing fashionable outfits on Instagram.

Career

Puente began her career as a meteorologist at WJCL, WTGS, and WAPT in Jackson, Mississippi, in the mid-1990s. Puente was hired as the station's principal meteorologist in January 2007 when Storm Field left. She previously worked as a weathercaster for WCBS-Channel TV's 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News at Noon.

Puente worked for WNBC as a weekend morning meteorologist from 1999 until she joined WCBS. Since late 2012, the weather journalist has been the weekend meteorologist at Fox 5 WNYW and the channel's primary fill-in meteorologist.

Audrey Puente Fox 5 New York WNYW

Puente is best known for her work as a meteorologist for WWOR, where she covered weather around the country, and she is now working for Fox's flagship station, WNYW, after leaving the station. She breaks out severe weather occurrences and weather conditions worldwide for the network's weekend news segment in this position.

Timeline

1990: Worked for ABC-affiliated station WJCL as a weathercaster.

WNBC, the flagship station of NBC, hired HER as a weekend meteorologist in 1999.

2012: Worked as a weekend meteorologist for WNYW.

Puente was a chief weather reporter at WWOR-TV before joining the station, covering the channel's My9 News at Ten'. She was promoted to chief meteorologist at the station after replacing veteran meteorologist Storm Field.

WCBS-broadcast TV's of Channel 2 news The Morning and CBS News at Noon was among the stations Puente briefly served. She left WNBC, where she worked as a weekend meteorologist for the morning show, to join the station.

Puente began her career working for WJCL-TV and WTGS in Savannah, Georgia, presenting daily weather updates. She also contributed to CBS's morning show, "The Early Show," by standing in for regular host Dave Price on occasion.