Nora Zimmett

Nora Zimmett serves as Senior Vice President of Programming for The Weather Channel television network.

Nora oversees all aspects of Weather’s live and original programming and its world-renowned storm coverage. She is responsible for the overall editorial direction of the network. In February 2015, the network posted it’s strongest February performance in four years.

Nora joined Weather in September 2014 from CNN where most recently she served as co-creator and executive producer of both New Day Weekend and Smerconish. Prior to joining CNN, she held senior producer and producer roles at Bloomberg Television and Fox News Channel. Nora is an award-winning journalist and her many honors include an Emmy Award for her work on election coverage in 2012.
Nora holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.