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Andy Avalos appears on NBC5 News Today's weekday morning newscasts, from 5 to 7 a.m. He returned to the NBC5 weather team in June 2003, after a hiatus during which he worked as owner and operator of the Pancake Cafe in Lemont, Ill. [CR-LF][CR-LF]He has more than 25 years of weather experience -- at NBC5 from 1994 to 1998 and prior to that, at WLS-TV, where he worked as weekend forecaster from 1984 to 1994. Avalos also anchored weather reports on weekday mornings on FM-100. From 1982-84, Avalos served as a weather forecaster for KMGH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Denver, Colo. Before then, he worked for four years as a forecaster at KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs, Colo. Simultaneously, between 1979 and 1982, Avalos worked in his hometown of Pueblo, Colo., as a radio announcer and sales account executive for KDZA-AM/FM. It all started in 1977 at KPUB-AM/FM, when he began his broadcasting career.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Avalos is a member of the American Meteorological Society and holds the AMS Seal. He is also a member of the National Weather Association.

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