On October 21, 2025, Lindsey Monroe from 13 WTHR visited Seymour High School to detail her journey to Indianapolis as a meteorologist and provide insight into what the job typically looks like behind the scenes. Mr. Tim Perry, the teacher who organized the event, stated that he invited Lindsey because he found out they not only graduated from the same high school, Cambridge City Lincoln, but also got their degrees from Ball State University. She has spoken to Mr. Perry’s speech SHS classes twice.
She was introduced to meteorology through drag racing; her father was a drag racer, and because weather plays a significant role in how a car performs on the road, she would constantly be asked for data about the weather, such as due point. Though she had an interest in junior drag racing, even driving in the cars, she ultimately settled on meteorology and pursued it at Ball State University. There, she worked on a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology and a minor in Telecommunications and had the opportunity to storm-chase during one of her summers at the college through their offered program, traveling throughout the world. She noted that the largest part of college for her was the networking; she was able to attain many internships through the relationships with professors, where she settled on her first job with WTHI-TV in Indiana, working the Monday-Wednesday morning shifts.
Lindsey worked with WTHI-TV for four years total, getting promoted to chief meteorologist two years into her career. After gathering experience helping manage the station, she moved to WHBQ-TV (Fox 13) in Memphis, Tennessee, as a morning/midday meteorologist for 2 years. Finally, she arrived back in Indiana at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis as a morning/midday meteorologist, where she’s been for 8 years. Interestingly, her birth name isn’t Lindsey Monroe, but due to pronunciation, as Mr. Perry claims, it was changed by a news station.
Her days start at 2:30 AM, when she plans what to cover and makes visuals for later in the day during a conference call until around 3. Then, she gets herself ready to go live for 5 hours straight at 4 am, ending her day with web stories, weather blogging, social media management, working on graphics for wthr+, streaming app content, and preparing graphics for the next day.
She highlights that vertical videos, like TIKTOK or Instagram, have become more important to aggrandize their ability to share information, fitting the weather’s predictions for the day in a short video that anyone can watch at any time. Even though it seems as if many people are turning away from live news, she predicts that live news will still be a priority, and there will always be a need for it; however, she also predicts that, unfortunately, more “hubbed” meteorologist groups will arise to save money for some news stations, where material is used from other news stations in the area as their own due to short staffing.
Despite this unfortunate prediction, a variety of news stations will remain separate for their own distinct counties. During her time as a meteorologist, Lindsey Monroe has had many highlights, and a few of them include the following:
- Covering Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas during her Fox 13 journey
- Lindsey Monroe and her team’s news vehicle was flooded, as the town flooded during their stay in a hotel, so a sister radio station near them let them borrow their news vehicle for the day
- Embedding with the dispersed Tennessee task force, she documented the event
- A nursing home was accessed through boats, and a vet checked out the pets as someone else passed out blankets they’d gotten the day before
- Covered the total solar eclipses in 2017 and 2024
- She needed a special lens so the camera didn’t flare up while zoomed in, and she was lucky to be in an area without clouds
- Covered the Indy 500 race’s morning
- Was on the Pacer’s jumbotron
Though meteorology is her primary concern, Lindsey Monroe doesn’t just work as a meteorologist. She also emcees events, judges competitions, has appearances for charity and sponsored events, and helps with
around 500 festival events, presents 13 Weather Academy school presentations, and is sometimes a guest co-host on a Colts talk show.
Taking time out of her workday to talk about it, Lindsey Monroe’s life has been full of surprises and a horrible sleep schedule, but she works hard as a meteorologist to ensure that many people can get access to the most accurate weather forecast, right where she wants to be back home again in Indiana.
