COLUMBIA – With 15,000 followers on Facebook, Will Rowe – maybe better known as Will’s Weather – has made a name for himself in the weather world. And the budding meteorologist just announced another addition to his resume: Weekend Meteorologist.
“The moment you have all been waiting for,” Will posted on Facebook on Sunday. “I have accepted the Weekend Meteorologist position at WACH FOX 57 here in Columbia! I am extremely grateful for the opportunity, and I’m excited to work with them!”
In a 2023 interview with The Voice, then-17-year-old Rowe said he had an interest in watching weather forecast videos since he was in preschool – and, after watching weather forecasts on television with his grandmother, would play at being a weather man with an old road map and a dry erase marker.
It was a visit to a local news station that opened his eyes to the world of video, he says – and he chose that as his next direction.
“At that point, I had no intention of doing anything TV-related; I simply wanted to do the science and research meteorology,” Will says, “but seeing all the cameras and all that, I just thought, ‘Hey, this is pretty cool, I can set this up,’ so I just got a camera, a green screen, got a computer, and got it going.”
It was in the spring of 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, that he began making his own forecast videos and posting them on social media.
Over five years later, Rowe is now studying Operational Meteorology at Mississippi State University and Geographic Information Systems at the University of South Carolina. Rowe says he expects to graduate from both institutions by or before May 2026.