She was nominated for Emmy Awards which she considers to be one of her biggest achievements, “Emmy nomination made me smile ear-to-ear”. She was nominated in 2007 for her coverage on the hurricane Irene special entitled Surviving the Storm. It was her first self-produced project, she was involved from the beginning to end. She considered that to be her baby because it was a project that she was deeply proud of.

Other Professions

Apart from working as a broadcast meteorologist, she also teaches meteorology at Virginia Wesleyan College. She wants to give back to the community by teaching the future generation of weather reporters. She has a unique perspective that she could share with her students because she is an active weather reporter while she is a teacher. Instead of being retired at her post, she is able to tell the students about the current trends in reporting.

A little known fact about Vanessa is that she has three years of experience as Business Analyst when she was working for American Management Systems, Inc. as an Information Technology consultant from 2000 to 2003. Her work was focused on testing and implementation. She likes to point out that her time as a business analyst made her weather career stronger. Using the analyst skills from her work in business gave her a unique eye and patience to predict weather trends and patterns.

Personal Life

Vanessa has a personal website which contains information regarding herself and her various projects. The website also contains various videos and her resume.

Even though Vanessa is active on social media, she likes to keep a low profile. She has a Twitter account but she is much more active on her Facebook account and posts updates regularly. She posts updates on weather and also pictures and videos of her personal. She also has a profile on Linkedin, where she has all her educational and professional details listed. People consider her to be really efficient in her work and she gets praised for her work on the networking site.

Vanessa is married but information about her husband is kept private. She is currently residing in North Bergen with her husband, daughters, and a dog named as Zeus. She loves spending time being physical and enjoys running, swimming and other outdoors activities. She is addicted to expensive lattes. She always needs to visit Startbucks before work so that she can get an energy boost. She is a family oriented person and was very happy to join a station that would allow her to be near her family. She loves spending time with them and she makes sure that she balances her work and family life.