Jonathan Kegges

Jonathan Kegges focuses on translating complex weather and climate signals into clear, impact-focused coverage for News 6’s audience, with a particular emphasis on tropical systems, seasonal patterns and what they mean day to day. His work blends real-time forecasting with explainer pieces on phenomena like Saharan dust plumes, El Niño and unusual hurricane seasons, consistently tying large-scale atmospheric shifts back to practical effects such as rain chances, flooding and air quality. He works across television, the website, streaming platforms, newsletters and live interactive chats, giving his coverage a continuous, multi-platform presence that goes beyond standard nightly forecasts.

Tropical systems and hurricane season

Kegges devotes a significant share of his coverage to tropical storms and hurricanes, tracking each phase of the Atlantic season from pre-season outlooks through late-season “grand finale” scenarios.

In his recurring Tropics Watch newsletters, he follows specific storms such as Fay and Hanna, detailing how they form, intensify, weaken and sometimes return as “zombie” systems, while highlighting records and anomalies like consecutive storms failing to reach hurricane status. Headlines such as “The 2026 hurricane season just made history...again,” “Fay *almost* made history,” and “Zombie storm: Remnants of Fay try to develop again” show a through-line of placing each storm in a historical and statistical context, not just reporting its current track.

He uses approachable language and recurring framing (“back with you for another hurricane season”) to build continuity with readers across multiple updates as the season evolves.

Beyond individual storms, he analyzes broader tropical patterns and their implications, explaining stretches of suppressed hurricane activity or clusters of short-lived storms as features of the larger environment rather than isolated curiosities.

When a tropical depression or storm forms, as in “Tropical Depression Five Forms,” he traces its origins in stalled fronts and Gulf Coast thunderstorms and walks through possible intensity scenarios, including “sneaky” hurricane potential, to help audiences understand both forecast uncertainty and risk. This combination of storm-specific tracking and basin-wide pattern analysis distinguishes his tropical coverage from basic advisory summaries.

Climate patterns and seasonal outlooks

Kegges regularly steps back from the daily forecast to explain major climate drivers and seasonal outlooks, linking global-scale patterns to local expectations.

In “Chances grow for ‘Super’ El Niño by summer,” he describes the transition from La Niña to El Niño and spells out how that shift affects weather worldwide and in his primary coverage area, including typically wetter, stormier winters. In “Florida’s winter outlook is very different. Here’s what to expect in 2026/2027,” he turns that climate framing into a concrete seasonal narrative, outlining themes such as severe weather, large temperature swings and frequent clouds, rather than just listing monthly averages.

These pieces marry long-lead forecasting with straightforward explanations of what people can expect over months, not just days.

He also covers atmospheric phenomena that sit at the intersection of climate, air quality and visibility, such as Saharan dust plumes moving into Florida and the Gulf Coast. Headlines like “A rare September dust plume is headed to Florida. Here’s what to expect” and his coverage of a massive Saharan dust plume focus on how elevated dust layers affect skies, sunsets and short-lived changes to air quality, emphasizing both the science and the practical advisories. This pattern of explaining why an event is unusual, how it forms and what it means on the ground gives his environment coverage a distinct, science-forward character.

Day-to-day forecasts and local impacts

Kegges continues to produce daily and short-term forecasts that are tightly tied to local impacts, often framing routine rain events in terms of flooding, road conditions and utility advisories. In “Unsettled weather pattern ramps up through the weekend,” he walks through timing and coverage of showers, differences between coastal and inland areas and sharp increases in rain chances early in the workweek, using specific percentages and geographic references to show how the pattern changes over several days. Other pieces highlight direct impacts, such as “Heavy rain floods streets across Brevard County; here are the roads to avoid” and “Floodwaters creep up Astor driveways as coastal storm threatens river levels,” where he connects rainfall totals to flooded streets, stalled cars and emergency response activity.

His daily work extends into live formats and streaming, including interactive weather chats hosted weeknights, where he invites viewers into real-time discussions of ongoing weather and forecast questions.

Across platforms, his focus stays on “inconvenient weather” and utility issues such as boil water notices tied to pressure loss, showing a consistent interest in how atmospheric conditions translate into infrastructure and public-service concerns. This gives his routine forecast coverage a service-journalism edge that goes beyond temperature and precipitation charts.

Service pieces on everyday weather and environment

Alongside forecasting and climate explainers, Kegges writes practical, everyday-weather pieces that address nuisance phenomena and seasonal annoyances with concrete advice. In “Here are 3 ways to keep lovebugs from bugging you this season,” he shifts from pure meteorology to simple, actionable tips, using his platform to answer a persistent seasonal complaint while still grounding the piece in the timing and conditions that drive lovebug swarms.

His dust plume coverage similarly balances explanation and guidance, noting that most dust remains aloft while flagging brief reductions in air quality when plumes pass over the region.

Across these service-oriented stories, the consistent through-line is clarity and utility: he takes atmospheric and environmental events that might otherwise feel abstract and breaks them down into what people will see, feel and need to do differently over the next few days or weeks. Coupled with his multi-platform role creating weather content for television, web, streaming and newsletters since joining News 6 in 2019, and more than a decade of experience in broadcast meteorology, this focus makes his coverage notably actionable for audiences looking to understand both the science and the everyday impacts of weather and climate.