Ryan Hill
Meteorologist
Rapid City, SD
Meteorologist Ryan Hill proudly joined the team at KOTA/KEVN in late May of 2024 as a Ball State University Cardinal. He graduated from there with a B.S in Meteorology & Climatology, and also carries a B.A in Geography (environmental geography option) at California State University, Los Angeles and carried out some of his earlier meteorological studies there as well as at The Ohio State University. This also means he has done his fair share of travelling and has discovered a love for discovering new places as well as a-climate-izing (pun intended) to all different kinds of weather while learning the finer things of how to forecast it.
Ryan's travels have taken him through the studio, in the office & on the road as well! At Ohio State, he was part of the Scarlet & Gray Forecasting Team as well as the OSU Meteorology Club. After transferring to Ball State University in 2021, he joined the team of NewsLink Indiana's sister show, Waking Up with Cardinal Weather and then the regularly scheduled forecasts & live newscasts of NewsLink Indiana in 2022. He also took his weather forecasting journey into the office of the Cardinal Weather Service at Ball State, a part of a client-based forecasting immersive learning course. The biggest travel of them all was the storm chasing class at Ball State that he joined in May of 2022, which gave him his first opportunity to discover Rapid City as well as forecasting weather in the area with that team as a chase lead. While here, this gave Ryan a great connection to the weather team through fellow Cardinal David Stradling.
Like David, Ryan enjoys a good hike (something he discovered in the mountains of southern California when he lived close to LA) and is captivated by a solid storm chase. On top of that, he loves discovering a new favorite dish at the many delicious local establishments Rapid City has to offer. He also takes the flavors as inspiration for what he would like to do as he delves deeper into cooking, an emergent new fascination of his. Beyond that, Ryan loves relaxing and streaming a good series as well as enjoying a plethora of different music styles; jazz, classical music as well as classic rock are some of his favorites.