Dylan Dreyer. Photo: Courtesy of NBC News.
Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) is proud to announce that Dylan Dreyer, Cook College ’03, Co-Host, The 3rd Hour of Today,” Meteorologist, NBC News, will serve as the school’s 2025 Convocation Speaker. Dreyer will address the school’s more than 800 degree candidates, along with their families and guests, on Monday, May 19, 2025.
Dylan Dreyer is the co-host of 3rd Hour of TODAY and serves as a weekday weather correspondent and regular co-host for TODAY and Nightly News with Lester Holt.
Dreyer is the host of Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dreyer, the winner of over a dozen Telly Awards, which airs Saturday mornings on NBC. In addition, she co-hosts two weekly radio shows on Sirius XM, Off the Rails with fellow TODAY co-hosts Al Roker and Sheinelle Jones, and Lunch Date with Dylan and Brian, a joint show with husband Brian Fichera. You can also often catch her filling in on NBC Nightly News: Kids Edition — a digest of the top headlines broken down for kids to best understand the world today.
Throughout the years, Dreyer has reported live for NBC News from some of history’s most devastating storms, including Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Hurricane Milton in 2024. She also covered the North American polar vortex of 2014 and Boston’s record-breaking snowfall in 2015. She was also a part of the network’s extensive coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Most recently she reported live on the devastating Los Angels fires, the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history.
Dreyer recently launched, A Peek Out Your Window, an interactive board book for the youngest of readers. She also authored Misty the Cloud: Fun Is in the Air, and The Thing About Spring, both part of A Step into Reading franchise. This is a follow up to Misty the Cloud: Friends Through Rain or Shine, and her New York Times best seller, Misty the Cloud: A Very Stormy Day. The picture book series features her beloved character Misty — a little cloud with big feelings. Dreyer combines her extensive weather knowledge with her experience as a mom in this social-emotional learning franchise.
Dreyer joined Weekend TODAY in 2012 from WHDH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Boston, where she served as the weekday morning meteorologist on Today in New England since 2007. In 2008, she was named Boston’s Best Meteorologist by Improper Bostonian magazine. From 2005 to 2007, Dreyer was the weekend meteorologist at WJAR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island and from 2003 to 2005 she was the weekend meteorologist at WICU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Dreyer graduated Cum Laude from Rutgers University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology. During her time at Rutgers, she served as weather anchor for the Rutgers TV network and radio station. Dreyer is a recipient of the American Meteorological Society’s prestigious Seal of Approval award.
She resides in New York with her husband Brian Fichera and their sons Calvin, Oliver and Russell and their dog Bosco. Dreyer is on Twitter and Instagram at @DylanDreyerNBC
Dreyer will return to the G.H. Cook Campus to deliver her speech at the 2025 SEBS Convocation Ceremony, taking place at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 19, 2025, in front of the Passion Puddle.
Learn more about the 2025 SEBS Convocation ceremony.
