Richard Nunn
Richard Nunn turns weather into risk stories, focusing on how extreme conditions and fast-changing systems affect people day to day. As News4JAX’s Chief Meteorologist, he leads The Weather Authority coverage that emphasizes clear timelines, practical guidance and preparedness over raw numbers. His long tenure at the station means his forecasts draw on years of tracking hurricanes, heat waves, severe storms and cold snaps for the same audience.
Weather Alert Days and Extreme Heat
Nunn’s forecasting stands out on days when multiple hazards stack together, such as storms developing while an extreme heat warning is already in place.[anchor] In that coverage he ties the radar picture directly to the heat risk, explaining not just when storms arrive but how humidity, temperature and cloud cover change the danger over the course of the day.[anchor] He uses the “Weather Alert Day” frame to signal that routine plans need adjusting, consistently pairing his maps and models with specific instructions on timing, outdoor activity and power use.[anchor] The emphasis is on cause and effect: what the atmosphere is doing, why it matters and what viewers should do now.
Hurricane Season 2026 readiness
Nunn plays a central role in the station’s Hurricane Season 2026 planning coverage, fronting The Weather Authority effort to help viewers get ready before storms form. In those pieces he walks through evacuation plans, supply lists and home protection steps in parallel with long-range outlooks, so the audience hears planning advice alongside the probability of landfall. He frames hurricanes as a season, not a single event, showing how early tropical waves and changing sea conditions fit into a broader risk window.
The tone is direct and practical: he treats preparedness as part of the forecast, integrating checklists and scenario planning into on-air discussions rather than relegating them to separate segments.
Tracking tropical cyclones and severe storms
Nunn’s day-to-day work features frequent updates on developing tropical systems, including early-stage disturbances that have only just entered the cone. In coverage of Potential Tropical Cyclone 9, he breaks down timelines for development, the shifting cone of uncertainty and what each shift means for different parts of the viewing area. He applies the same straightforward approach to severe thunderstorms, hail and heavy rain, explaining the risks and forecast for the coming days when strong storms and hail threaten local communities.
His segments on frigid, frosty forecasts show the other side of that spectrum, translating hard freezes and prolonged cold into clear guidance on how long temperatures will stay low and what that means for daily life. Across these formats, his distinguishing feature is a consistent focus on impact - who is in the path, when they will feel it and how to get through it safely.
Wildfire impacts and community presence
When wildfire damage threatens the region’s landscape, Nunn goes beyond studio maps and takes a first-hand look at burn scars and smoke impacts on the ground. That reporting connects weather patterns - wind, dryness, heat - to visible environmental damage, making the link between atmospheric conditions and wildfire risk concrete for viewers.
Away from severe events, he occasionally anchors special segments that blend local culture with atmospheric and environmental themes, such as participating in a paranormal investigation at a historic lighthouse that has long intrigued him.
His station bio underscores a personality that mixes forecasting with humor and lifestyle interests, describing him as both a forecaster and comic foil with passions that include cooking, home projects and beer. He also serves as host for community fundraising events, bringing The Weather Authority brand into civic life and reinforcing his role as a familiar presence beyond the weather segment alone.
4 more environment journalists.
Adelaide Lang
Adelaide Lang combines climate reporting with courtroom and Indigenous-focused journalism. She reports for The Daily Telegraph, with work also appearing in The Canberra Times, and contributes guest pieces to National Indigenous Times. Her environment coverage focuses on climate-threatened islands, community resilience and how policy decisions affect people facing direct environmental risks. She follows local campaigns, adaptation efforts and political pressure while keeping the human effects clear. Lang also covers court proceedings involving public officials, including the trial of State MP Gareth Ward over historical sexual and indecent assault charges. Her reporting examines how allegations are tested in court and how the justice system handles accusations against people in power. With more than five years in digital media and courtroom reporting, she writes clear, factual accounts of events, legal processes and their consequences.
Ashleigh McMillan
Ashleigh McMillan is a breaking news reporter at The Age. She stands out for covering the environment through public events, infrastructure and everyday city life. Her reporting tracks how protests, policy decisions and sudden incidents change routines, public safety and the spaces people move through. She covers fast-moving stories across Victoria, with a focus on community tension, access and the lived effects of official decisions. Her work includes protests and public demonstrations, crime and courts, transport and ticketing changes, traffic experiments, weather, and environmental conditions in the city. She reports on what people see and feel on the ground, with attention to victims, commuters, residents and the practical consequences of legal and infrastructure decisions.
Bareket Falk
Bareket Falk uses environmental stories to show how growing bodies handle physical stress, especially heat, during exercise. She is a pediatric exercise physiologist and kinesiology professor whose work focuses on how children, adolescents and adults respond to activity across growth and development. She writes evidence-led explainers for The Conversation that test assumptions about children’s vulnerability and turn decades of exercise science into clear, practical guidance. Her core piece looks at how children and adults cope with extreme heat, walking through basic thermoregulation and challenging the idea that children are automatically more fragile. Her journalism draws directly on research into blood flow, sweating, body size and growth, keeping technical detail tight and translating findings into concrete behaviours such as pacing activity, seeking shade and hydration. She is interested in how physical activity interacts with maturation, body composition and recovery, and uses data to check myths about kids’ risk.
Bec Lorrimer
Bec Lorrimer is a visual journalist and picture editor who tells environment stories through photography and careful image selection at the Guardian. She works at the intersection of climate coverage and visual editing, using picture-led formats to show how global heating and other environmental pressures play out in everyday life. Her environment beat centres on picture galleries that track the lived experience of climate extremes, including record high temperatures in South Korea, with in pictures sequences that foreground the scale of global heating over text-led analysis. She also contributes to monthly roundups of the strongest photos and human-centred features such as a nursing home story, focusing on people and places under pressure. As a global visual editor and assistant picture editor on international fronts, she selects images across environment, politics, culture and general news, drawing on her background as a photographer, video director and photo producer.