Career
He adapts science content for use by 1,300 television meteorologists around the country. Witte left television after a long career in meteorology. Most recently he was the morning and midday weathercaster for TBD television, a local cable news network owned by Albritton Communication headquartered in Rosslyn, Virginia and serving the Washington, Doctorate.C area.
Prior to that he worked at Washington"s American Broadcasting Company affiliate, WJLA, which is also owned by Albritton and headquartered in the same Rosslyn facility.
He served as the weekend weathercaster at WJLA from 2003 through September 2008, when he was released by the station. He was brought back in November 2008 to replace popular longtime morning weathercaster Ron Riley, who retired after 15 years with Newschannel 8.
Witte also served 3 years reporting on the weather"s effects on the business world for Consumer News and Business Channel. Witte has worked for WCBS-television, WABC-television, and W National Broadcasting Company-television in New York City, as well as at stations in Seattle, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Witte has also made appearances as meteorologist Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company. Witte served as the weatherman for the former National Broadcasting Company News program National Broadcasting Company News at Sunrise from 1983 to 1999, and Witte also served as the weatherman for Sunday Today from 1992 to 1995.
Witte has also filled in for John Coleman on American Broadcasting Company"s Good Morning America, and for Willard Scott, and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Roker on National Broadcasting Company"s Today Show.
He helped make John Coleman"s beta project tape for the initial Weather Channel. He continues to perform voiceover work for sponsor idents that appear before some segments of National Broadcasting Company"s Today. Witte has often reported on National Broadcasting Company Nightly News and Dateline National Broadcasting Company as a weather expert and was chief meteorologist for National Broadcasting Company"s Super Channel National Broadcasting Company Asia, and National Broadcasting Company Europe.
Witte was on the air non-stop for Hurricane Gloria in 1985, and also for the Blizzard of 1996 for over eight hours each for both events.
Local Emmys for Blizzard of 1996 and 2003"s Hurricane Isabel are among his awards. Joe Witte started his career as a glaciologist for the United States Geological Survey, working on the ice of South Cascade Glacier, Washington. He was the principal investigator on ice island T-3 in the Arctic Ocean studying the Greenhouse infrared radiation budget as well as the ice crystals of the Arctic clouds, winter and summers.
Next was 1 year at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, where original climate change computer modeling was created.
