Marti Skold

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Marti Skold brings 20 years of weather experience with her to ABC 4 Television. She was born and raised in Benson, Minnesota where she started her broadcasting career at a local radio station.

Marti has spent years chasing hurricanes and tornados, wading through floodwaters and reporting live from mudslides, blizzards, earthquakes and anything else mother nature could hand out. She also spent time covering the space program and many health and science stories.

While working for the NBC station in Miami, Marti filled in on NBC’s weekend Today Show. She has been awarded a Golden Mic for Best Weathercast and an Emmy for Best Newscast.

Marti attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota majoring in Speech Communications and Theatre, English and Scandinavian Studies. Additionally, she studied Meteorology and Oceanography at the University of New York Oswego and Mississippi State University.

Her career has taken her to may television stations from Fargo, North Dakota to Wilmington, North Carolina, Buffalo and Syracuse, New York, Knoxville, Tennessee, Miami, Florida to Los Angeles back to North Carolina and now to Salt Lake City.

Marti is very much in tune with her Norwegian and Swedish heritage and taught Norwegian in the summer while she was attending college.

Community service has always been part of her life and career. She emceed the Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon for 16 years in various cities and was a member of the National Advisory Board for Boys and Girls Town.

Marti is married and has a daughter and a son. In her free time, Marti loves to spend time golfing, gardening and traveling with her family.