Rob Perillo
Posted: Jan 2, 2004 10:06 AM
Updated: Jan 19, 2010 6:57 PM
Rob Perillo is the Chief Meteorologist for KATC-TV3’s Acadiana’s NewsChannel. He has 25 years of experience in forecasting Gulf Coast weather and has tracked hundreds of tropical storms and hurricanes during his career including major Louisiana storms such as Andrew, Lili, Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike.
In addition to anchoring local weathercasts since the late 1980s Rob was an Aviation Forecaster for Air Routing International, and a Marine and Industrial Meteorologist for Wilkens Weather Technologies, in Houston, Texas. He began his career at the State University of New York Research Foundation, while also serving as an Emergency Planning Meteorologist for several nuclear power plants in Upstate New York.
Over the years Rob has appeared on numerous hurricane and weather specials that have aired on the Learning, Discovery, National Geographic and Weather Channels. Rob also video-taped and broadcasted live coverage nationally to CBS and CNN during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Rob was awarded the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval for Television Weathercasting in 1992. He is the recipient of 16 Associated Press awards, including consecutive honors for “Best Weathercast” and “Breaking Weather” categories in Louisiana.
Rob earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology (and was two courses shy of a math degree!) from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1983. He and his wife live in Lafayette . They have two children, Olivia and Joseph.
Brokenhearts Ma at Sep 24th 2009 3:35 PM
Dear Mr.Perillo,
I am very disappointed that I never did get any responses from you regarding two emails that I sent you a couple months ago.
Troy at Sep 24th 2009 10:12 PM
Dear Rob,
As the seasons begin to change, I was wondering could the Acadiana region ever get a Blizzard? No I don't mean one at Dairy Queen. I mean a real winter cold Blizzard. I know that the conditions would have to be right on the money. But could it really happen here in Acadiana? The reason I ma asking such a crazy question, me and a buddy, have a bet. You will be the one to decides who pays for the next bar tab.I hope I am right and we could have the possibilities of recieving a blizzard. Please I hop I recive an answer.
Thank you for your very valuable time. Thanks, Troy A. Romero
M.V. Smith at Oct 6th 2009 7:23 AM
Good Morning, Rob,
After the weekend rains I have small drifts of fine white sand on my patio.
Could this be from the Pacific Ocean carried by the rain?
Gary Whitaker at Oct 16th 2009 11:04 AM
Rob: With all the rain we've had recently, I've been wondering if we have set some kind of record for number of straight days of rain for this time of year, or inches of rain for this time of year, etc. Does KATC keep any kind of historical records on your web site that we could access.
Great Job.
Gary
Tracy D. at Oct 21st 2009 10:41 AM
Bring the other weather web page back!!!! Like the old one much better, miss the many options we had with the power doppler 300. Had many more radar picture options and the best was the computer forecast. It was nice to see what the computer predicted was headed our way on an almost hour by hour basis. BRING IT BACK> Thanks