Frank Billingsley Biography
Frank Billingsley is an American Meteorologist working for KPRC2.
He has also won four times with the Houston Press Club and the Houston Press journal, and three times with the Dallas Press Club. “He’s a lucky boy to have three dads.”
Billingsley and Gilliard met at JR’s on August 12, 1995, and as Billingsley says, “Since then we’ve maybe been apart for ten nights.”
Raised in Alabama, the charismatic, blue-eyed Billingsley studied communications and journalism at Washington and Lee University and received his Broadcast Meteorology Certification from Mississippi State University.
He was an adopted child raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama. It’s our home.”
After spending 42 years as a broadcaster, Billingsley has many memories to reminisce on, but he shared one particular weather report that has remained ingrained in his mind.
He recalled a tornado that was about to strike during a 1992 college football game, with Texas A&M playing against Texas Christian University.
He interrupted the game’s coverage, warning people to take cover, knowing that in Texas, football fans would likely be unhappy – if not angry – at the interruption.
The powerful tornado caused widespread destruction, but no deaths were reported.
A reporter later interviewed a couple who had received Billingsley’s message and sought shelter.
While their home had been destroyed, they had survived.
To this day, Billingsley says that it’s a memory he’ll “never forget,” as reported by Houston Life.
He got a certificate in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State. He celebrates his birthday on the 20th of June every year.
Frank Billingsley Height
Billingsley stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inch tall.
Frank Billingsley Family
Billingsley always suspected that he was adopted and always wondered, deep down, who his parents were.
He came to Houston in 1989 as the weekend meteorologist for KTRK-TV Channel 13 and then jumped ship in 1995 to become KPRC’s chief meteorologist. “We’ve watched it before and they have even asked me to be in it, but the parade always fell on June 22, which is my birthday and my mother’s, so there were always too many conflicts.”
This year, the festival and parade down Westheimer Road is June 29, making it a perfect post-birthday celebration for one of Houston’s favorite weather guys.
“Plus,” he adds, “the Weather Channel had just started with twenty-four-hour weather, and it just seemed very exciting.”
He started out in Roanoke, Virginia, forecasting the weather for four years before moving to a Biloxi station and then to Texas. Frank has won seven Associated Press Best Weathercaster honors, four times from the Houston Press Club, four times from the Houston Press newspaper, and three times from the Dallas Press Club.
Career As A Meteorologist
Frank began his TV career as a meteorologist in 1982 in Virginia and later in Texas. The wedding ceremony was held in front of 70 guests at the Eventi Hotel near the Empire State Building in Manhatten.
In 2020, he became an honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy, “the highest honor the governor of Texas can bestow on a citizen for community service,” as reported by his biography.