Background
She is also formerly a meteorologist for KABC-television in Los Angeles, where she was born and raised. Petersons was born Indra Valija Petersons on June 22, 1980 in Los Angeles, California.
She is also formerly a meteorologist for KABC-television in Los Angeles, where she was born and raised. Petersons was born Indra Valija Petersons on June 22, 1980 in Los Angeles, California.
University of Arizona.
She formerly worked as the weather anchor for Cable News Network"s early morning program "New Day". She is currently a meteorologist at American Broadcasting Company News. She has two older sisters, Astra and Brita.
She is of Latvian descent.
Her first language is Latvian, and she is also fluent in English. Petersons is a 1998 graduate of Louisiana Cañada High School in Louisiana Cañada Flintridge, California.
She then went on to graduate from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Physics in 2002, also minoring in business, math and physics. In 2002, Petersons got her start as a meteorologist for KVIA in El Paso, Texas.
The same year she went on to KEYT in Santa Barbara, California.
In 2003, she became a meteorologist and weather producer and she did reporting on environmental and general assignment issues at KABC in Los Angeles, California. She held the position until she left for Cable News Network"s New Day show in 2013, where she did weather segments for Cable News Network Newsroom. She holds an American Meteorological Society Certified Broadcast Meteorologist certificate.
Currently she works for American Broadcasting Company News.
