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Dec. 18, 2002
For over 36 years, Mark Eubank, Chief Meteorologist for KSL Television, has been delivering television weather broadcasts. He can be seen on the number one rated Eyewitness News, weekdays at 5 PM, 6 PM and 10 PM.
Since the age of 12, Mark has had a passionate love of the weather. When he was 15, he wrote a weekly weather column for a Southern California newspaper. He attended UCLA at age 17. At 24, Mark started working as the TV weatherman for KRCR in Redding, California. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. For 20 years he owned and operated, WeatherBank, Inc., a weather consulting firm. Mark worked at KUTV for 22 years and has been at KSL since 1990.
Mark Eubank has served as an adjunct professor at Westminster College, is past president of the Utah Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, and has been an adviser to the State of Utah Weather Modification Board. He has also served as an adviser to the Space Science Center at the University of Wisconsin for Innovative Applications in Meteorology. He is the author of Utah Weather, and holds the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval.
Mark was also Chief Meteorologist for the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games. He led a thirteen-member specialized weather forecast team-the first non-government weather team ever used for a United States Olympics. Mark and his team provided detailed weather forecasts for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics and provided weather briefings to the Olympic officials and the worldwide media.
Mark and his wife, Jean, reside in Bountiful, Utah, and have seven children.