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Carmen Molina

Carmen Molina

Carmen Molina is a bilingual news editor at weather.com. Hometown San Salvador, El Salvador Educational Background BA in Anthropology, Universidad Tecnológica... Read full biography

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Bouquet Fire explodes near Santa Clarita amid SoCal heat wave

Firefighters are battling triple-digit heat and fast-moving flames as a wildfire tears through the hills near Santa Clarita, California. Evacuation orders have forced families from their mountain homes, and the flames are also threatening a Hollywood filming location used in major action movies. See how crews are working to keep the fast-growing blaze from spreading further into Southern California's parched hillsides.

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No, this isn’t hurricane footage: See nor’easter damage in NJ

A slow-moving nor'easter battered the Jersey Shore with powerful wind gusts, torrential rain and punishing coastal flooding. Rough surf ripped apart a boat in Surf City, flooded homes lined the coast, and the storm turned deadly in New York. See just how much it looked like a hurricane — and when relief finally arrives.

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Watch: Storm shatters window, floods basement of Dayton, Ohio home

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About Carmen

Carmen Molina is a bilingual news editor at weather.com.

Hometown

San Salvador, El Salvador

Educational Background

BA in Anthropology, Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador

What I Do

Bilingual News Editor

How I Got To The Weather Company

I was born and raised in El Salvador, where I became a journalist at a young age and worked for several newspapers, covering a wide variety of events and breaking news, including weather events.

In 2011, I moved to Brooklyn, New York, with my family and worked as a freelance writer for El Diario New York, Brklyner, and Escultural. I started working as a writer, translator and producer for the Spanish version of weather.com in 2016. In 2020, I published the book “SalviYorkers,” which chronicles 100 years of Salvadoran immigration in New York, and I have published other scholarly articles about cyberjournalism, culture and arts.

What I Love About Working for The Weather Company

As a social scientist, I am fascinated by human behavior and love to learn about the interactions between humans and nature, and also being able to communicate and make people aware of how weather can impact their lives.

Preferred Weather Areas

Hurricanes/Tropics

Winter

Favorite Core Weather Memory

Growing up in El Salvador, I experienced several natural disasters, like earthquakes (San Salvador, 1986) and tropical storms/systems that caused tragic impacts in my hometown, like a landslide at a San Salvador volcano in 1982 that was triggered by heavy rain and killed hundreds of people.

Preferred Weather Condition

Snow and thunderstorms.

Favorite Book

Of Love and Other Demons, by Gabriel García Márquez (1994)

Favorite Movie

Amadeus (1984), Lost in Translation (2003)

Memorable/Current Work

As a breaking news reporter in El Salvador, I covered several tropical storms, including Olaf (1997) and Mitch (1998). I also reported on the devastation caused by two powerful earthquakes in 2001 and the eruptions of the Santa Ana Volcano (2005) in El Salvador and Alotenango (1999) in Guatemala.

Some of my memories of covering the widespread flooding caused by Mitch were included in this article.

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