
Meredith Garofalo
Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland. A self-described "Rocket Girl," Meredith's personal and professional work has also been recognized over the last decade. This includes the inaugural Valparaiso University Alumni Association First Decade Achievement Award, two special reports in News 12's Climate Special "Saving Our Shores" that won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Fair Media Council Folio & Press Club of Long Island awards for meteorology & reporting, and a Long Island Business News & NYC TV Week "40 Under 40" Award. Meredith's 15 year career includes a wide variety of experience across the US stemming from her internship at WGN-TV in Chicago. Meredith worked at local television stations in New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Florida, and California and nationally with WeatherNation. Meredith is also an accomplished reporter, producing weather and science stories. This includes rocket launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral, in depth special reports and features on NOAA's GOES-R and JPSS satellite series, and coverage on some of NASA's biggest accomplishments. She's interviewed some of the top scientists and leaders of the space & science community, being selected as the only meteorologist to travel with the GOES-West satellite from Colorado to Florida in 2017 on the C-5M Super Galaxy. Meredith frequents as a panel moderator at the Space Symposium & Satellite Conference, has been a judge for the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame & reoccurring moderator for Foundation for the Future. Meredith spends countless hours doing school, career, & motivational talks and podcasts to help encourage women pursuing STEM careers and inspire our future generations. She moderates panels, serves as emcee for events, & conducts interviews to further storytelling on space & science topics.
Latest articles by Meredith Garofalo

The sun might've just had a record-breaking number of visible sunspots
By Meredith Garofalo published
On Aug. 8, NASA scientists may have spotted a record number of sunspots when hundreds of individual spots were estimated to occur within 24 hours.

Sun fires off double-barreled X-class flares in span of 2 hours
By Meredith Garofalo published
Solar activity is expected to remain high this week.

Solar storm slams Mars in eerie new NASA footage
By Meredith Garofalo published
A powerful solar storm in May 2024 created auroras on Mars and provided scientists with crucial information that could aid future crewed missions to the Red Planet.

'Lost' satellite finally found after orbiting undetected for 25 years
By Meredith Garofalo published
The Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73-7) satellite had gone off the grid from radar not once but twice — once in the 1970s and then again in the 1990s. After 25 years missing in orbit, it has finally been rediscovered.
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