Fernando Confessore

Fernando Ezequiel Confessore was born in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1968. Before turning to meteorology he trained in aviation, studying to become an aircraft dispatcher at the National Institute of Civil Aviation (INAC), which then came under the Argentine Air Force, and obtaining a restricted radiotelephone operator's licence from what was then the National Communications Commission.

In 1992 he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as a university meteorological forecaster. From 1992 to 1994 he worked at Argentina's National Meteorological Service (SMN), receiving and interpreting satellite images, and took further courses in cloud analysis (nephanalysis) and aeronautical meteorology.

In December 1995 Confessore joined the meteorology team of Artear, the media group that runs the news channel Todo Noticias (TN) and the broadcast network El Trece, at first making occasional appearances on TN. In 1997 he became the weather columnist and presenter on TN's early morning news, TN de 7 a 9, and on El noticiero de Santo on El Trece. He was also in charge of the weather segment on TN Agro, bringing forecasts to the farming audience.

In November 2000 he took part in a World Meteorological Organization course on science communication in the media, and throughout his career he was known for explaining atmospheric phenomena in accessible language. On radio he was a columnist on Fernando Carnota's programme on Radio La Red. In 2006 he and Mauricio Saldívar published Meteorología para todos (Meteorology for everyone), a collection aimed at non-specialist readers, with Planeta-DeAgostini.

In his final years he presented the weather in TN's midday slot, on TN de 10 a 13 and the afternoon programme Nuestra Tarde. Alongside television he taught meteorology on the aircrew courses at the aeronautical school at Morón Air Base, of which he was a former student; on 15 October 2026, the day before he died, he had set his students a mid-term exam.

Confessore was known for keeping his private life to himself. He was married to Paula, and the couple had three daughters. In his later years he occasionally shared posts about his family, which colleagues said surprised and moved them. He was a keen Boca Juniors supporter who argued about football with his workmates, and colleagues remembered his humour, his dancing during on-air titles and his habit of photographing unusual clouds on his phone to use as teaching material for his students.

Fernando Confessore died at his home in the Versalles district of Buenos Aires in the early hours of Friday 16 October 2026, aged 58. He was taken ill suddenly at about 3 a.m.; his wife, Paula, called the emergency number, and police and then paramedics of the city's SAME emergency service tried to revive him without success. His family told TN that he had suffered a heart attack. No further medical details were released.

Mario Massaccesi announced the news on TN at 6.50 a.m., saying the channel had waited until the rest of the family had been told. Colleagues, including Matías Bertolotti, Paula García, Lorena Maciel and Ignacio González Prieto, paid tribute on air and on social media, and the aeronautical school at Morón Air Base, where he taught, held a ceremony in his memory the same day.

His wake was arranged for Saturday 17 October 2026, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, at the Zuccotti Hnos. funeral home on Avenida Córdoba in Buenos Aires, with the funeral cortege then leaving for La Chacarita Cemetery.

For thirty years Confessore was one of the best-known weather presenters in Argentina, and colleagues credited him with helping to make television meteorology a mass, everyday service. His fellow TN meteorologist Matías Bertolotti called him a mentor to the whole team, and Paula García described him as a pioneer in his field. At the Morón Air Base school, its director, Commodore Pablo Lena, praised his warmth and his lasting commitment to training future Argentine aviation professionals.