Robert Ray

Robert Ray serves as a FOX Weather correspondent based in Atlanta, Georgia.

At FOX Weather, Ray has covered nearly every major natural disaster in America including hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, wildfires, blizzards, earthquakes and more. Ray produces, shoots, writes, and edits his own content, including long-form specials like "Cruisin’ Across America", which explored severe weather's environmental ties. In 2022–23 alone, he logged over 5,000 live hits across FOX platforms.

With a background spanning over 20 years in the field including war zones, domestic & international natural disasters, terror events, mass shootings and political campaigns. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 he traversed 39 states taking the pulse of communities. Ray, has reported and traveled into earthquakes along the Pakistan & Kashmir regions to a Tsunami in Indonesia to the frigid arctic, capturing icebergs breaking off into sea. Ray has ridden out nearly 60 named tropical storms and hurricanes, as well as hundreds of severe weather events. Additionally, he has produced, shot, written and edited nearly two dozen long-form documentary style programs.

Ray's reports also spotlight personal narratives, resilience, and long-term recovery struggles. In post-Hurricane Helene coverage from Swannanoa, North Carolina, he described scenes of families living in tents during a harsh winter. Similarly, in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, he highlighted aid distribution with groups like the Medic Corps, interviewing locals about lost homes and pain amid resilience.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Ray holds a degree in Mass Communications and Journalism.