Raphael Miranda NBC Salary, Ethnicity, Husband, Son, Parents, Worth

Who is Raphael Miranda?

Raphael Miranda is a meteorologist working for WNBC in New York as a meteorologist. He is the on-air meteorologist on weekends mornings, Monday, Tuesday, and Friday at Noon. He is the weatherman for Weekend Today in New York and hosts the Megaphone Interactive Trivia of Saturday Today in New York.

Raphael Miranda Age

Miranda is 44 years old. He was born on April 26, 1977, in Bedford Hills, New York, United States.

Raphael Miranda Height

Miranda stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Raphael Miranda Parents

Miranda was born and raised in Bedford Hills, New York to a Brazilian father and an American mother. During his childhood, he has been flying back and forth between the two countries.

Ethnicity

Miranda is probably of mixed ethnicity. He has a Hispanic name and speaks fluent Spanish. His ethnic background however is not clearly known.

Raphael Miranda College

Miranda went to Fox Lane for his high school education. He then joined Loyola Marymount University until 1996 when he joined New York University. He graduated from NYU with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), in Spanish Language and Literature in 2000.

Miranda then joined Brooklyn College where he studied Broadcast Journalism. He simultaneously studied at Mississippi State University where he graduated with a
Bachelor of Science (BS), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences and Meteorology in 2008.

Raphael Miranda’s Husband Doug Simpson

Miranda is married to his husband Doug Simpson. The couple was married on December 3, 2003, in a ceremonious private wedding.

Son

Miranda and his husband have a son MacArthur born via a surrogate by their long-time friend Sarah. Their son was born on 6th May 2017. The family lives together in New Jersey.

Raphael Miranda Gay

Miranda is openly gay. He is an active member of the LGBT Organisation Live Out Loud and also a member of The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

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Raphael Miranda NBC Meteorologist

Miranda works for NBC 4 New York as a meteorologist. He joined the station back in January 2009 and has been updating the New York viewers of the weather ever since.

Miranda won his second Emmy for his coverage of Superstorm Sandy in 2012. He was an integral part of Storm Team 4’s wall-to-wall Sandy coverage, working around the clock to keep the public updated and informed during one of the most intense and challenging weather phenomena of his career.

Miranda had won his first Emmy for his coverage of Hurricane Irene a year before. He began his career at NBC 4 New York in 2007 as a weather intern before moving into production and on-air roles.

He has experienced and forecasted many extreme weather conditions during his time at NBC 4 New York, including February 2010, when New York City received more than three feet of snow in one month, breaking the previous February snow total record.

Miranda also covered the 2011 Halloween snowstorm that knocked out power to thousands in the Tri-state area, as well as the 2016 Blizzard, which set a record for one-day snowfall in Central Park.

Miranda has appeared on The TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News, Early TODAY, Weekend TODAY, and CNBC World in addition to MSNBC.

He has also appeared on sister station Telemundo 47 as a meteorologist, delivering the weather forecast in Spanish. Miranda is fluent in Portuguese and has a working knowledge of French in addition to Spanish.

Miranda began his career in 2007 as a fill-in Meteorologist for News 12 Networks before joining NBC Universal.