6abc picks Adam Joseph to replace Cecily Tynan on ‘Action News’
New chief meteorologist Adam Joseph has been with the station since 2005.
At 6abc, one veteran meteorologist will replace another.
Adam Joseph, a familiar face to Action News viewers for two decades, was named the station’s chief meteorologist Monday, taking over a position held by only one other person — Cecily Tynan.
“I am honored to pass the clicker to you,” Tynan said in a prerecorded message Monday.
An emotional Joseph, Kleenex in hand, said it was the “privilege of a lifetime” to follow in the footsteps of Tynan and two other former 6abc weather reporters — Dave Roberts and the late Jim O’Brien.
“For me, this is a dream that truly started at birth,” Joseph said, noting he was born during a flood. “Weather has always been the ultimate constant in my life. I live, I breathe, I obsess over getting the forecast as perfect as possible, even when Mother Nature throws us a sharp curveball.”
Joseph will be on during Action News broadcasts at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m.
6abc general manager John W. Morris called Joseph a “clear choice” to fill the position vacated by Tynan, who retired in August after nearly 31 years on Action News. Morris praised Joseph’s enthusiasm and his ability to break down complex weather systems impacting viewers in Philadelphia and across the Delaware Valley.
“Adam is a beloved figure in the region’s broadcasting community and a viewer favorite,” Morris said in a statement.
Joseph, who was born and raised in the Boston suburbs, joined 6abc in 2005 after stints at two stations in West Virginia. He began on weekends but quickly moved to doing weather reports during the week and becoming a staple of the station’s event coverage, including the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Joseph and Tynan offered plenty of forecasts together over the years, which sometimes led to a few laughs. During coverage of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Joseph had microphone problems and it appeared Tynan was caught by a hot mic calling him a “moron.” Leave it to longtime anchor Jim Gardner to break up the potential tension with some humor.
“What Cecily was saying was do you want mine on, my microphone on?” Gardner helpfully cleared up. “So if you thought that Cecily called Adam an untoward name, that’s not the case, at all. We don’t do that here. We are a family, we love each other.”
Then Gardner turned to face his colleagues, who were standing off camera, and said, “You’re acting like a moron.”
Weather has been Joseph’s passion since tracking the impact of storms at Bird Park as a child in his hometown of East Walpole, Mass. He was part of the “Weather Club” in middle school and did his first weather reports on the front porch of his neighbor’s home.
“We expected to see you on those hurricane shows chasing the hurricanes, chasing the tornado,” Lana, his former neighbor, told 6abc in 2015.
After choking up, Joseph composed himself enough to offer a pretty terrific seven-day forecast, featuring lots of sun and temperatures hovering in the high-60s and low-70s.
“The one flaw I got is being an emotional person,” Joseph said as he concluded his report. “I care, I care about everything I put my passion into.”
