Background
Javaheri was born in Tehran, Iran to Iranian parents and is fluent in Persian, Turkish and English.
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Pedram Javaheri
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Javaheri attended elementary school and high school in Redmond before moving on to college at Arizona State University. In addition to Arizona State University, he attended Mississippi State University where he obtained degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Meteorology.
Career
He can be seen regularly on editions of Cable News Network Newsroom and World Business Today. He regularly fills in on HLN"s Morning Express With Robin Meade and also appears on Cable News Network United States. during breaking news and severe weather coverage. His family emigrated from Tehran to Redmond, Washington in October of 1993.
Javaheri began as a weather anchor at Arizona State University in 2002.
While there, he led and developed the school’s first weather department at NewsWatch television, an in-school news program broadcast throughout the State of Arizona. One week prior to his graduation, he accepted a position as a Meteorologist in Utah at KCSG. He was later promoted to the position of Chief Meteorologist and oversaw all weather operations.
In 2008, he accepted a position at a duopoly station in California"s Central Coast where he presented the weather for KCOY, KKFX, KION and KCBA. He held the position of Meteorologist and environmental reporter, reaching an audience of over 500,000 television households. While in California, he covered numerous notable events.
In 2008, he was on the scene of the Basin Complex fires in Big Sur, the second costliest wildfire in United States. history.
He joined Cable News Network in June 2010 and now resides in Atlanta.
Achievements
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During his time in California, Javaheri"s work was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in weather by the San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Awards. In August 2010, Javaheri was honored the "Iranian of the Day." He was on the Cable News Network weather team which won the prestigious Peabody award for its coverage of the Boite Postale 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. On March 11, 2011, he and Cable News Network United States. Meteorologist Chad Myers became the first duo in Cable News Network’s history to simultaneously forecast and cover the potential tsunami"s impact to a global audience.
