Dec. 2024 | Vol. 4 Iss. 12
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KEVIN EUBANK: THE HOMETOWN WEATHERMAN CONTINUES A TRADITION By Tom Haraldsen | t.haraldsen@mycityjournals.com
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t’s easy to assume that when you’re the son of legendary TV meteorologist Mark Eubank, it would be natural to follow in his footsteps. For Kevin Eubank, KSL’s longtime meteorologist and native of Bountiful, that wasn’t the case. “I'm the sixth of seven children in my family,” Kevin Eubank said, “so most of my siblings are older than I am. My father had a meteorology company called Weather Bank, and a few of my older siblings actually worked for my dad's company. And so as a young kid, I knew my dad did weather and that he did radio shows in the morning from our home, and I saw him on television, but I had zero affinity or interest in the weather other than just, you know, basic family conversation.” Kevin Eubank went to Oak Hills Elementary, Millcreek Junior High and Bountiful High, from where he graduated in 1993. He said weather was always a subject of conversation in their home. “So I was fully exposed. I just didn't have any interest in pursuing that as a career,” he said. “And in fact, as I got into my teenage years, it was actually almost the opposite. Really. It was kind of a turn off, because my dad was so passionate about it that it was something I didn't want anything to do with.” That changed when Kevin Eubank was serving an LDS mission in Mexico due to a tragedy he experienced. “I served in a very rural area, and there was a dry wash that went through the area that kind of divided the community, and there was a Continued page 14 The Eubank family, from left, are Maryn, Jensyn, Jana, Kevin, Owen and Camryn. Photo courtesy of Eubank family
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