Elita Loresca – ABC13 Houston

Meteorologist Elita Loresca joined the Accuweather team at ABC13 Eyewitness News in 2015. She started with the station on weekend mornings, but you can now find her weekdays on the morning newscasts.

Before coming to Houston, Loresca was the morning and midday meteorologist for KNBC’s “Today in LA” show since October 2007.

Prior to working at KNBC Los Angeles, Loresca worked at WSVN in Miami where she served as a weather anchor for the top-rated morning and midday newscasts since August 2004.

Loresca covered two of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent history. From her first day at WSVN, Loresca began forecasting the 2004 hurricane season with Hurricane Frances. In 2005, Loresca wrote reports for his National Hurricane Center station during Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

From August 2002 to August 2004, Loresca was the morning and midday weather anchor on KGPE-TV in Fresno, California. Before that, she was a midday weather anchor and editor for KGET-TV in Bakersfield, California, from January 2001 to August 2002.

Loresca began her career as a news associate at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she was responsible for assembling scripts and operating the teleprompter during newscasts. She also assisted the assignment office.

Loresca graduated from Cal State Fullerton’s broadcast journalism program and earned a broadcast meteorology certificate from Mississippi State University. She is a member of the National Weather Association and the American Mogenic Society. In 2009, she earned the American Mogenic Society (AMS) Television Seal of Approval.

Loresca is married and mother of two children. She also enjoys the outdoors, playing at the park with the kids, and fitness classes including spinning, zumba, pilates, kickboxing, barre, and the occasional crossfit class. She and her husband also enjoy cooking and barbecuing and enjoy trying all the restaurants the Houston area has to offer.