KDEN Denver Promotes Niurma Sanchez To Chief Meteorologist And Jose Luis Quevedo To Meteorologist

Telemundo’s KDEN Denver has promoted Niurma Sanchez to chief meteorologist and expanded Jose Luis Quevedo’s role to neteorologist.

Niurma has served as KDEN’s meteorologist for more than six years and Quevedo joined the station in 2021 as web editor. For the past four years, KDEN has been accredited as the “Most Accurate” Spanish-language TV weather forecaster in the Denver DMA by WeatheRate, an independent weather research company.

Niurma Sanchez and Jose Luis Quevedo

“We congratulate Niurma and Jose Luis on their well-deserved promotions and look forward for our viewers to continue benefitting from their skills and expertise,” said Griselle Sierra, KDEN news director. “Niurma’s forecasting work spans extreme weather events, including winter storms, blizzards and hurricanes, while Jose Luis is our in-house expert in weather storytelling for online and digital audiences. Together, they will help our audiences understand and navigate weather events and make their forecasts available across all platforms.”

An award-winning broadcast meteorologist, Sanchez has covered local and national extreme weather events like blizzards, snow and tropical storms and more, including supporting Telemundo 31’s weather coverage for Hurricane Dorian. She also worked at KDEN’s sister station, WSCV Miami, as meteorologist in 2016 and at the Meteorology Institute of Cuba from 2014 to 2016.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Instituto Superior de Tecnología y Ciencias Aplicadas in Cuba and is certified by the American Meteorological Society. In recognition of her broadcast forecasting work, the NATAS Heartland Chapter has acknowledged her with four Emmy Awards. She has also been recognized as the best meteorologist by the Colorado Broadcasters Awards for five consecutive years.

Quevedo joined KDEN in 2021 as web editor and has helped the station inform its mobile and web audiences, covering many impactful news events, including the tornados in Highlands Ranch, the Marshall fire, the hailstorms in Red Rocks and participating in the award-winning KDEN special Más Allá de la Tormenta.

Before KDEN, he worked as meteorologist at the Institute of Meteorology of Cuba. He earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Instituto Superior de Tecnología y Ciencias Aplicadas in Cuba.