Education
After graduating from Wicomico High School, Seidel attended Salisbury State College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in mathematics, in 1979.
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He is noted for his field reporting from breaking weather including severe weather, hurricanes and snowstorms. Seidel"s interest in weather started at the age of six when he began measuring snowfall in his hometown of Salisbury, Maryland. While he was in the eighth grade in school, Seidel installed a weather station on the roof of his house.
He worked for four local radio stations during his high school and college years, including WJDY-Department of Administration and Management in Salisbury, WDMV-Department of Administration and Management in Pocomoke City and WKHI-FM in Ocean City (all three in Maryland), as well as WSUX-FM in Seaford, Delaware.
He also majored in geography. Immediately after his graduation, Seidel began his television career with WMDT-television in Salisbury.
Seidel also entered graduate school, and he earned his Master"s degree in Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. Seidel wrote his master"s thesis under the direction of Doctor Greg Forbes, now "s expert on severe weather.
During his graduate studies, Seidel appeared on Weather World on the Pennsylvania Public Television Network.
Seidel"s first full-time broadcasting position was at WYFF-television in Greenville, South Carolina, where he worked from 1983 through 1989. He next returned to Salisbury in 1989 to work as the meteorologist for WBOC-television Seidel remained there until March 1992, when he left for
Seidel covered his first storm, Hurricane Edouard, on Labor Day Weekend in 1996 on Cape Cod. Since then he has covered more than fifty tropical storms and hurricanes, nor"easters, numerous snow and ice storms and tornado outbreaks.
He has also reported live from the Professional Golf Association Tour, the Baseball All-Star Game, the World Series, and the Indianapolis 500 automobile race.
From 2002 to 2012, Seidel hosted the National Football League "Kickoff Forecast" segments every Sunday morning from NFL venues. While at, Seidel has appeared on numerous network news programs, including National Broadcasting Company-television"s Today Show and National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, Columbia Broadcasting System-television"s The Early Show, The Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News and Columbia Broadcasting System Sunday Morning, and American Broadcasting Company-television"s Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline and World News Now.
Seidel has also reported live from breaking weather on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, the Cable News Network and Fox News Channel. Seidel has filled in for Tony Perkins on American Broadcasting Company"s Good Morning America in 2003 and for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Roker on National Broadcasting Company"s The Today Show in 2009.
He became the first Weather Channel and United States. meteorologist to report live from Cuba during coverage of Tropical Storm Isaac August 24–26, 2012.
