A Vancouver native and welcome addition to America’s Finest City in 2011, Dagmar Midcap has taken San Diego’s weather by storm. Aside from forecasting, Dagmar’s has a unique set of talents that include test-car driving, motorcycle-riding, and ice hockey. Her personal and professional interests prove as exciting and distinctive as her name.
Before moving to San Diego in 2011, Dagmar was the main weather anchor for WGCL-TV, the CBS affiliate in Atlanta. Dagmar started her television career at WBNX-TV in Akron, Ohio before returning to Canada to work on VTV’s “Breakfast” before moving to Global Television’s BCTV “Morning Show” as a traffic reporter. Midcap is also a well-respected automotive journalist and test drove cars and motorcycles as the co-host of Global Television’s “Driving Television” show. Midcap attended the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Broadcast Journalism program.
Now settled in San Diego with her brood of three dogs, Dagmar’s passion since moving to San Diego has centered on learning about the desert ecosystem, plants, animals and everything in-between. Watch Dagmar’s weather reports at 4, 5, 6 & 11P on NBC 7, online at NBC7.com/Weather or in the NBC 7 app.
Dagmar's enthusiasm for animals and all things environmental can be experienced through her "Down to Earth" segments. Follow her updates on NBC7.com in the Down to Earth section.
The Latest
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The Parrots of El Cajon Color The Community
No one is exactly sure how the parrots arrived in El Cajon, but they’re here and they’re beautiful.
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Down to Earth: Happy Ending for 6 Chimps Rescued From Life of Lab Testing
Many of the chimpanzees were born and bred into the biomedical testing industry or had been used in the entertainment industry. In the last year, further progress has been made on finding homes for all the chimpanzees.
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Down to Earth: Animal Rescue Facilities in Need of Help
In this week’s Down to Earth, NBC 7’s Dagmar Midcap profiled some local organizations about the challenges they are facing and how people can help.
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Hot, Dry & Windy: Stage Set for Dangerous Fire Weather in San Diego County
A heat advisory is kicking off the next upswing of a “roller coaster” weather shaking up San Diego County this week.
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Down to Earth: The Good Shepherds
A herd of goats in a field in Rancho Santa Fe is drawing a lot of attention recently. It’s called a “pop-up pasture” and it’s just the latest of its kind around San Diego.
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Scattered Showers Linger Before Santa Ana Warm-Up This Week
San Diego can expect to see some lingering scattered showers Tuesday morning before skies clear up to a warm-up due to a Santa Ana wind pattern later this week.
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State of The Rhino: Are Conservation and Protection Efforts Working?
NBC 7’s Dagmar Midcap takes a look at some of the interesting facts and numbers from the recently released International Rhino Federation “State of the Rhino” report about the last decade of conservation efforts.
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Down to Earth: The Extinction Crisis –Africa's Last Wild Dogs
NBC 7’s Dagmar Midcap traveled to South Africa to document what’s being done to protect painted dogs, one of Africa’s most endangered carnivores.
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Down to Earth With Dagmar: Protecting Painted Dogs
On Thursday, Nov. 5 on NBC 7, Dagmar Midcap hosts the latest edition of Down to Earth, The Extinction Crisis. This special focuses on what’s being done to protect Africa’s last wild dogs, here’s a preview of some of what’s coming up on the show.
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Climate Catastrophe Warning Ahead of the Global Climate Summit
The UN climate change summit starts Sunday in Scotland. The climate summit has been described as the world’s last chance to avert major climate catastrophes.
