Max Goldwasser
Max Goldwasser focuses on fast, conversational weather forecasts for ABC 10News San Diego, connecting temperature swings, storms and seasonal shifts to the immediate week ahead. He serves as an evening anchor and weekend forecaster and reports feature stories for the station during the week. He joins environmental coverage to on-air anchoring, treating heat waves, storms and unusual seasons as ongoing storylines rather than isolated forecasts.
ABC 10News Pinpoint Weather forecasts
Goldwasser is a regular face of ABC 10News Pinpoint Weather, fronting short segments branded “ABC 10News Pinpoint Weather with Max Goldwasser” that walk viewers through the upcoming days in three to four minutes. His forecast titles are direct and trend-focused, with recent segments labeled “Warming up through Wednesday,” “Muggy, stormy week ahead,” and “We warm up and clear up by Tuesday”. The format centers on the weeklong outlook, including a “Super 7 Day Forecast,” and breaks down when heat, humidity, rain and clearing conditions will arrive and depart across the region.
In longer written forecasts, he carries that same clarity into text, detailing cloud cover, temperature ranges by area and how far readings sit above or below seasonal averages.
Heat all week and abnormal seasons
A recurring theme in Goldwasser’s work is abnormal seasonal behavior, especially prolonged heat and unusual winters. Forecasts such as “Heat all week...what else is new?” underscore how persistent high temperatures have become a defining backdrop rather than a brief event. In a piece on a “Cooler-than-average finish to summer,” he explains how a summer defined by abnormal heat ends with temperatures dropping up to five degrees below average, spelling out coast, inland, mountain and desert highs to show contrast across microclimates. He links that transition to the fall equinox and a subsequent warm-up, framing the shift as part of a larger seasonal pattern rather than a single cool spell. Titles like “That winter was officially unlike any other!” signal the same interest in highlighting when a season departs sharply from historical norms, reinforcing his environmental focus on extremes and anomalies.
Rain, splashdown and Artemis II
Goldwasser’s forecasts sometimes anchor around major events, connecting atmospheric conditions to broader stories beyond the nightly weather cycle. In “Rain should hold off until after splashdown,” he times the arrival of rain against a high-profile splashdown, making the forecast directly relevant to the success and safety of that event. He extends that thread with news reporting on spaceflight, revisiting a conversation with an Artemis II astronaut ahead of her return and drawing on an earlier interview conducted when she was preparing for the mission.
That pairing of event-specific forecasting and follow-up reporting on space exploration shows a sub-beat interest in how environmental conditions intersect with science and technology stories.
Stories of service aboard the USS Midway
Beyond weather and space, Goldwasser anchors community-focused features that spotlight service and history. In “Stories of service aboard the USS Midway,” he profiles a museum docent who has logged thousands of volunteer hours and uses the Veterans Day backdrop to explore what service and remembrance mean to him. The piece dwells on listening and personal testimony, giving space to the veteran’s own reflection on the importance of hearing each other’s experiences. Similar reporting threads appear in other feature work credited to him, where anchoring duties are combined with narrative storytelling about individual lives and institutional legacy.
Role at ABC 10News San Diego
On the station’s team page and his author biography, Goldwasser is presented as part of the main on-air roster, combining anchoring with forecasting responsibilities. His current role has him anchoring in the evenings, delivering weekend weather forecasts and reporting stories across news and feature formats during the week.
Professional profiles indicate he moved into this position in 2024 after reporting in another television market, bringing daily news and feature experience into his current blend of environmental coverage, space reporting and community storytelling.
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