In September 1997, Lopez landed her first position as a weekend meteorologist for
WTLV-TV in
Jacksonville, Florida. In March 2002, she spoke at the 15th Annual Working Women's Survival Show, discussing her career as a meteorologist. She left the network in 2008. after a nationwide search for a replacement for seventeen-year veteran Rebecca Miller. In 2009,
NBC 5 Today, the morning news program for KXAS, and for which Lopez was the meteorologist, won a Lone Star
Emmy Award. In November 2010, she participated in the Spokes for Hope charity event, where she helped build bicycles for underprivileged children. She left KXAS in March 2012. On April 20, 2013, Lopez returned to The Weather Channel doing weather updates during taped programming and was an on-camera meteorologist on
Weather Center Live. Lopez is a member of the
American Meteorological Society (AMS), where she holds the seal of approval in
television. ==Personal life==