Angela Fritz - Senior Director, Climate and Weather
Angela Fritz
Senior Director, Climate and Weather
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Rescue pups from Texas flood zone arrive in Chicago to find new homesJul 17, 2025The dogs were scooped up from Texas shelters to make room for more lost and orphaned pets. -
How do you survive a flash flood? Keep an ax in the atticJul 9, 2025Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many others — have showed that preparing for flash flooding is a new necessity as the planet warms. -
Children’s camps in Texas were located in areas known to be at high risk of floodingJul 7, 2025When too much rain falls for the ground to absorb, it runs downhill, pulled by gravity into streams, creeks and rivers. -
Large, long-lived tornadoes are tearing across the South after a deadly outbreak Friday nightMar 15, 2025Large and destructive tornadoes are carving paths of destruction across the South for the second day in a row. -
Tornado outbreak is raking across Central US as part of a major storm that has killed 3 so farMar 15, 2025Dozens of tornadoes are reported from thunderstorms that lit up the radar from Wisconsin to Mississippi in the early hours Saturday. -
Haboob tears across Southwest with near-zero visibility, shutting down interstatesMar 4, 2025New Mexico law enforcement officials closed parts of Interstates 10 and 25 as well as US Highway 70 because of the “dangerous, life-threatening” travel conditions. -
How Americans will feel the impact of Trump’s weather forecasting layoffsMar 1, 2025Scientists and politicians are sounding the alarm about potential consequences of the layoffs, including keeping people safe and protecting the economy. -
What is the Paris Agreement? Trump pulled the US out — againJan 21, 2025President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the planet and our ability to adapt. -
LA fires were larger and more intense because of planet-warming pollution, study suggestsJan 15, 2025The result raises the question of whether the fires could have been controllable were it not for the fire-fueling effects of climate change. -
From flooding rain to unmitigated wildfire: Why California is ground zero for disastersJan 10, 2025Eleven months ago, the Los Angeles area was under water. Nearly a foot of rain fell in just a couple of days in early February. It was a deadly storm that flooded roads, floated cars and triggered hundreds of mudslides. -
A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggestsAug 3, 2024It uses state-of-the-art models to estimate the shutdown could happen between 2037 and 2064, and that it’s more likely than not to collapse by 2050. -
The planet just saw its hottest day on recordJul 23, 2024The record is all but certainly the warmest temperature the planet has seen in at least 100,000 years. -
US Constitution encasement vandalized with red powder at National ArchivesFeb 14, 2024Two people dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution on Wednesday, the National Archives said. -
5 easy ways to live greener in 2024Jan 6, 2024The climate crisis is not your fault, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do. Here are five easy ways to make a positive impact in 2024. -
The water has turned a shocking shade of magenta in this Hawaii refugeNov 10, 2023Water has turned pink at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge amid extreme drought and brightly hued bacteria. -
When will saltwater arrive in New Orleans? Here’s what to knowSep 29, 2023As drought tightens its grip in the Central US and water levels on the Mississippi River plummet to near-record lows, a surge of saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico is pushing upstream, polluting drinking water for thousands of residents south of New Orleans.
About
Angela Fritz is a meteorologist and CNN’s Senior Director of Climate and Weather, responsible for overseeing CNN’s climate and weather team, its operations, and editorial priorities on all platforms, including digital, linear, and off-platform streaming and social media.
Fritz has overseen the network’s coverage of the most consequential global crisis, its potential solutions, and its intersection with deadly weather, the COVID-19 pandemic, US political polarization, and global power shifts. Her leadership has ensured that CNN’s climate and weather journalism remains authoritative, data-driven, and deeply relevant.
Under her leadership, CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Milton — a historic storm that devastated communities along the Gulf and East Coasts — was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy. Fritz has expanded the climate and weather team to meet growing audience demand, reflecting how the topics have become central to both the news cycle and people’s daily lives.
Before joining CNN, Fritz held several leadership positions, including Deputy Editor on the General Assignment News Desk at The Washington Post and Deputy Weather Editor for the Capital Weather Gang. Fritz previously worked at CNN in Atlanta as a weather producer and at Weather Underground in San Francisco, where she was the company’s first atmospheric scientist.
Fritz has covered a wide range of natural and manmade disasters, including the Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and countless deadly hurricanes, wildfires, and flash floods.
She holds a B.S. in meteorology from Valparaiso University and an M.S. in earth and atmospheric science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the American Meteorological Society, and the National Weather Association.
