Mark Scirto
KLTV 7 Senior Meteorologist
East Texas
Mark Scirto is KLTV 7's Senior Meteorologist. He has established himself as East Texans' first and favorite choice for the information they care about the most: weather.
He can be seen each day on KLTV 7 News at Midday and 4 PM. Mark graduated in 1982 from the University of St. Thomas in Houston with a degree in Meteorology. From 1980 to early 1987, he worked in Houston at Wilkens Weather Technologies forecasting for oil rigs and refineries all over the world. Mark also did forecasting for several radio stations in the Houston area before joining the KLTV News Team in January of 1987, as the original Daybreak Meteorologist.
Mark remained with Daybreak for four years, before moving to KPLC-TV Channel 7 in Lake Charles, Louisiana where he worked as Chief Meteorologist for exactly three years. While in Lake Charles, he finished second in the Associated Press Awards for "Best Weathercast" in 1992, and in 1993 Mark was awarded First Place in the Louisiana A.P. for Best Weathercast.
On April 4, 1994, he re-joined the KLTV News team as Chief Meteorologist. While at KLTV, he has been nominated for a Dallas Press Club Katie Award, an honor no other weathercaster/meteorologist in the Tyler/Longview area has ever received. Mark has held the Seals of Approval from the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society since 1989.
Mark has four children, Katherine, Mark, Anthony, and Hannah. Beth, his wife of 40 years, retired from teaching theology to young people in the Catholic School Systems in Houston, Lake Charles, and Tyler. He would also love to tell you about his 14 grandchildren, just ask him.
