Richard Nunn

Jacksonville

Meteorologist at WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, FL)

Meteorologist at WCWJ-TV (Jacksonville, FL)

I am an all American nerd! I have made being a weather dork into a long lasting occupation. Catch my forecasts weekdays on The Morning Show from 4:28 to 9 AM.

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Articles

Weekend plans? You may be dodging showers and storms

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Published: June 6, 2025 at 3:06 PMJacksonville, FL – Hot and humid with a few showers and thunderstorms through this evening. The Gulf sea breeze continues to stir up showers and thunderstorms, although with much less coverage than the last couple of days. Thunderstorms may briefly become strong with gusty wind and locally heavy rain. These will wind down around sunset tonight with clearing skies and patchy fog overnight. The pattern continues this weekend.
Yards and gardens are loving the sun and the showers

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – The rounds of rain over the last couple of days may have been a nuisance to your commute or outside plans, but the plants are loving it. Everything is so lush and green. Thanks to the beneficial rainfall, yards and turf have been well watered as container plant roots are flourishing in their hydrated homes. Our little container garden is growing well. It’s amazing at the overnight spurts of growth from all of my plant projects, even in the confines of a plastic tub.
Summer heat, humidity and thunderstorms

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – Scattered showers with thunderstorms are on the move and will be a part of our afternoon and evening commute. Scattered showers with thunderstorms will move from I-75 toward I-95 under the deep southwesterly flow. Showers with thunderstorms will move from the southwest toward the northeast from late afternoon through tonight. Did you feel the humidity? It is sticky, saturated. That tropical moisture could lead to locally heavy downpours.
Rain with storms will lift north

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – Soaking showers and isolated thunderstorms continue as the trough of low pressure lifts north. The unsettled pattern with rounds of rain will continue through tonight. The models have done a great job with the rainfall amounts thus far. Inland areas have received amounts ranging from around 0.50 - 1.50 inches with a few spots topping 5 inches. Coastal zones are averaging 1.0 - 3. 0 inches with heavier amounts.
Impact Weather: Rounds of rain are on the way

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – Rounds of wet weather are on the way. For some, it will be beneficial rainfall while other areas could see too much, too fast. Flooding during heavy rainfall is the biggest risk while the severe weather threat will remains limited. Starting this evening through Thursday, rounds of rain will move through with a pesky trough of low pressure.
Two days into the 2025 Hurricane Season and the NHC is watching something close to home

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Published: June 2, 2025 at 3:24 PMTwo days into the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane season and the National Hurricane Center is already monitoring an area of potential development. A non-tropical area of low pressure is forecast to form near or offshore of the southeastern U.S. coast during the next couple of days. If the system remains offshore, the low could gradually develop some subtropical or tropical characteristics later this week while moving northeastward at 10 to 15 mph.
From scattered showers to widespread rain

3 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – Partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures will start the work week. Sea breeze showers and storms will be a part of Tuesday’s forecast with widespread showers and thunderstorms developing Wednesday and continuing through the rest of the week. Evening: Hazy under partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. A few showers will be possible along our southern counties. Partly cloudy skies with patchy fog overnight.
A cold front is coming: Late night storms expected

4 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – The first of the widespread Severe Thunderstorm Watches started at 1 pm, for portions of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. This is important as it is the first we have seen along the front so far today. The afternoon heating is destabilizing the atmosphere ahead of the cold front building a better chance of storms for those areas. Across SE GA and NE FL our air is saturated, the atmosphere is becoming increasingly unsettled with afternoon heating and we have the sea breezes.
Weather Authority Impact Day: Rounds of showers, thunderstorms continue Friday

4 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Published: May 29, 2025 at 11:18 PMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Friday will be a Weather Authority Impact Day. Thursday brought heavy rains and strong to severe thunderstorms, and Friday afternoon will likely be no different as a cold front and active sea breezes move in. The impact would start around 2 p.m. and last into the night. We are expecting an earlier start along the Gulf Coast with showers reaching I-75 from late morning through early afternoon. Strong to isolated severe storms will be possible.
Showers and thunderstorms are developing

4 weeks ago | news4jax.com | Richard Nunn

Jacksonville, FL – Rounds of rain are on the way as a cold front slowly moves across the area. Afternoon heating and the Gulf Coast sea breeze will bring additional instability to the thunderstorms. Strong to isolated severe storms will be possible. Locally heavy rainfall, hail and gusty wind will remain the main threats as the storms build across our western counties and then travel east, northeast.