Carmen Molina is a bilingual news editor at weather.com.
Hometown
San Salvador, El Salvador
Educational Background
BA in Anthropology, Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
What I Do
Bilingual News Editor
How I Got To The Weather Company
I was born and raised in El Salvador, where I became a journalist at a young age and worked for several newspapers, covering a wide variety of events and breaking news, including weather events.
In 2011, I moved to Brooklyn, New York, with my family and worked as a freelance writer for El Diario New York, Brklyner, and Escultural. I started working as a writer, translator and producer for the Spanish version of weather.com in 2016. In 2020, I published the book “SalviYorkers,” which chronicles 100 years of Salvadoran immigration in New York, and I have published other scholarly articles about cyberjournalism, culture and arts.
What I Love About Working for The Weather Company
As a social scientist, I am fascinated by human behavior and love to learn about the interactions between humans and nature, and also being able to communicate and make people aware of how weather can impact their lives.
Preferred Weather Areas
Hurricanes/Tropics
Winter
Favorite Core Weather Memory
Growing up in El Salvador, I experienced several natural disasters, like earthquakes (San Salvador, 1986) and tropical storms/systems that caused tragic impacts in my hometown, like a landslide at a San Salvador volcano in 1982 that was triggered by heavy rain and killed hundreds of people.
Preferred Weather Condition
Snow and thunderstorms.
Favorite Book
Of Love and Other Demons, by Gabriel García Márquez (1994)
Favorite Movie
Amadeus (1984), Lost in Translation (2003)
Memorable/Current Work
As a breaking news reporter in El Salvador, I covered several tropical storms, including Olaf (1997) and Mitch (1998). I also reported on the devastation caused by two powerful earthquakes in 2001 and the eruptions of the Santa Ana Volcano (2005) in El Salvador and Alotenango (1999) in Guatemala.
Some of my memories of covering the widespread flooding caused by Mitch were included in this article.
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