Chikage Windler is the Chief Meteorologist at CBS Austin. She forecasts the weather weeknights at 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 pm. She also provides weeknight weathercasts for The CW Twin Cities, CBS Austin's sister station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and contributes weather stories she shoots, writes, and edits for Sinclair's "The National Weather Desk."

Previously, Chikage has made guest appearances on ABC's Good Morning America and ABC World News in New York City. She also worked in Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Boston, Washington, DC, Dallas, and Norfolk, VA. 

She is an Emmy and AP-award-winning meteorologist, a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) in the American Meteorological Society, and holds the National Weather Association's Seal of Approval. She is a past winner of Austin Monthly Magazine's "Best TV Personality" award. 

Chikage grew up in the heart of Tornado Alley in Oklahoma and saw first-hand the devastation of multiple tornadoes including a deadly EF-5 that hit her parents' neighborhood in Moore.

She graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Meteorology and a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Oklahoma. While in Norman, she was part of a tornado-chasing research project at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

When she's not forecasting the weather, Chikage is a busy mother of two girls. She and her husband are also proud parents of Skipper and Ewok, dogs they adopted from the Central Texas SPCA. Chikage is an avid runner, having completed 10 marathons. 

Chikage sits on the board of the OU Club of Austin. She enjoys volunteering for organizations including Girlstart, Keep Austin Beautiful, the Austin Parks Foundation, and the Central Texas SPCA.

One of the questions Chikage gets most often isn't about the weather, it's about her name and heritage. Chikage is half-Japanese and her name means "thousands of views or vistas."

You can find Chikage on multiple social media platforms @ChikageWeather,