The Battle for Seattle Weather Supremacy Rolls on

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Just weeks after KOMO hired a full time morning weatherman from Orlando, freeing Theron Zahn to return to weekend mornings, they now add another weather anchor, this one from Phoenix named Stella Sun. So how does it all line up? Waldenberger is weekday a.m., Shannon O'Donnell is weekday p.m., Rebecca Stevenson is weekend p.m., Zahn or Sun (both of whom double as news reporters) weekend mornings? Could personnel or shift changes be in the wind? Does the station wants to beef up their ARC Seattle/CW offering?

We will keep an eye on staffing, but we can say the new hire gives KOMO five weather anchors, tying KING5 quintet (Marriott, Everett, Claibon, Pezzetti, Ruiz) with both stations a nose ahead of Fox 13 (MacMillan, Anderson, Acone, McCauley and Nikki Torres (listed on web site as 'occasional' weather). But remember that Erin Mayofsky can do weather as well though now she news co-anchoring Good Day Seattle weekdays. And with Claire Anderson going on maternity leave soon, we will see how Fox 13 covers that gap.

KIRO checks in with three (Allard, Palmer, Katafias), unless I am forgetting someone.

All of this would seem to show that weather is still THE key component of local TV news, even though forecasts are instantly available on phones.

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