Tonya Root covers western Horry County towns of Aynor, Conway and Loris in addition to weather for The Sun News and has worked for the newspaper since 1998.

She previously worked in Huntington, W.Va., and Evansville, Ind., as well as a weekly in eastern Kentucky. She has received honors for investigative reporting, spot news writing and was named Western Kentucky University's outstanding journalist during her senior year.

Ask Tonya such questions as why a dense fog often forms along the beaches, how hurricanes always seem to miss the Grand Strand or what the average temperature is in January.

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