JOHN HAS BEEN IN JACKSONVILLE FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS
Forecasting weather, economic and financial trends. Acclaimed not only for his weather forecasting abilities, he has also won back-to-back CNBC / USA Today Investment Challenges back in the 1990’s.
His passion is all of these, but his true calling has always been Meteorology. He considers stock picking as being rather easy, forecasting where a Hurricane will go and how strong it will be and most importantly who/what will be most impacted are much more challenging.
The Challenge keeps him going… Along with working at the greatest Television Station on the planet! Seriously. Consider this, WJXT maybe the only independent television station on the planet that dominates its local television market. Jacksonville is the 47th largest television market and WJXT dominates most news programming and consistently ranks 1 or 2 in most time periods. How is WJXT able to do it? The GREAT people both on and off-air that is what makes WJXT an awesome place to be…
September 8, 2008 at 5:11 pm |
http://www.insmet.cu ( Instituto de Meteorologica de la Republic de Cuba ) is the web site I use to get Cuban radar presentations ( “radares” ). There is a choice of 8 different radar sites. I’ve noted it mentioned a few times by your crew that you didn’t have radar images of IKE over Cuba because Key West’s radar did not extend that far. Can you use the Cuban info or this there some legal problems involved??
September 8, 2008 at 5:42 pm |
EXCELLENT here’s the “clean link”. Thanks!
JG
September 8, 2008 at 5:42 pm |
EXCELLENT here’s the “clean link”. Thanks!
http://www.insmet.cu/Radar/03Cienfuegos/psjMAXw01a.gif
JG
September 16, 2008 at 11:13 am |
YOUR WEATHER AUTHORITY PAGE IS GIVING SOME REALLY WRONG TEMPS
FOR LOCAL PEOPLE. YOU HAD BETTER CHECK IT
September 20, 2008 at 8:04 am |
John
Is the St. Johns River higher than usual. We have a boat at Fleming Island Marina and it appears the water level is constantly higher than normal. I noticed this right after Fay. Is it my imagination? You know they say the first to go is the “MIND.”
September 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm |
Perry…
I expect the River to rise more as Northeast Winds continue with locally heavy rains possible through Wednesday…
JG
November 17, 2008 at 9:47 pm |
John,
Many years ago I was an Aerographers Mate in the Navy (weather guesser). I think you are the best meteorolgist on TV. Thanks for your accurate forecasts. I am also a helicopter pilot (retired from the JSO) and I always tried to watch your forcasts….I knew I could count on the accuracy.
Rusty
December 17, 2008 at 4:38 pm |
The other nite as my 3 year old granddaughter Hannah & i were sitting in the backyard watching the moon & the 2 (stars?planets?)ishe looked up at me & said Papo …”John Gaughan said …it is going to rain tomorrow”very cute from a 3 year old & yes it did rain
December 26, 2008 at 7:32 am |
John,
My business fluctuates with the weather and your forecasts are the most accurate. Last December your prediction for 2008 would be a wet year, as it was. What is your prediction for 2009?
January 26, 2009 at 10:11 pm |
I have one question, maybe two…I live in Middleburg, and I would like to know why Channel 4 never mentions us in the weather or traffic.
We have weather here and we have traffic and accidents too.
I feel like we are being snubbed.
What is up with that? Just curious and wanted to bring it to you attention, so that MAYBE we will get a “Hello there!” or something from ya’ll.
February 10, 2009 at 6:50 am |
After a hard freeze like we have had. The possiblites of more cold weather and hard freezes before spring?
April 3, 2009 at 8:47 pm |
Can you tell me why it is windy in the daylight hours, and usually calm in the evening and night?
1 more question please.
In the past it has been dry in Florida with lots of wild fires. Would it not be less expensive to seed the clouds [when avaliable] for rain, rather than the hours spent from fire fighters and the loss of property??
Thank you for your time ; Lep
p.s. an e-mail responce would be appreciated. THANKS
May 22, 2009 at 6:44 pm |
Afternoon winds are directly caused by the heating from the Sun!
Cloud seeding is still rather undetermined in its effectiveness…
JG
April 29, 2009 at 9:34 pm |
Hey John, Thanks for all the weather and the way you present it. I just returned from a deployment to Iraq with the Florida Army National Guard aviation unit. It was great to get home to the family and turn on the tv at night and get to see your weather reports again. Thanks, Richard…
May 21, 2009 at 5:30 pm |
Thursday 5/22/09
John,
Is a 5 gallon bucket a good way to measure rain fall? If it is I have had 9 1/2″ since tuesday afternoon about 4pm. I live in the Grove Park/Holiday Hill area of Southside.
May 22, 2009 at 6:41 pm |
LOL! Good one!
June 8, 2009 at 5:31 am |
Hello John I FOUND A MISTAKE ON YOUR BLOGGIN ITS SAYS SENIOR IT SHOULD SAY BIG CHEIF JOHN AND IT SHOULD SAY WELL FOLKS HEAR THE DEAL lol
June 12, 2009 at 7:47 am |
JG
June 12, 2009 at 11:21 am |
Good Afternoon John just want to say good luck on your job as cheif also I hope you do not look like Greoge after 40 year Lol
June 12, 2009 at 11:23 am |
also fogot 1 more thing the big task is going to kept richard in line and you know thats not going to be easy LOL
June 26, 2009 at 4:07 pm |
I have pics and vids of storm how do i send them to you?
June 29, 2009 at 6:47 am |
Send them to weather4jax@yahoo.com
August 11, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
John, Now that we have all made the “digi-switch,” how do we keep updated during a storm, and power outages? After all, power outages takes out everything, including my wireless network, so JustWeather.com won’t do me any good either. Keeping up with Channel 4, and seeing all of your faces,was the only way I survived some of our bouts with Mother Nature of late. Now my poor little anolog emergency t.v. sits as a paper weight…
Well, you will need to shell out more money… But new digital portable televisions are available…
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=digital+portable+tv&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=3198406345&ref=pd_sl_34ikgj9xwm_b
Before buying, read the reviews carefully…
JG
September 11, 2009 at 6:41 pm |
Mr. Gaughan,
Can you recommend a good online almanac site that would cover northeast Florida? I am interested in the dates on which we may see declining temps. in our area; such as the first freeze etc. I watch your forecast every night and you are the most accurate weatherman in the area. Thanks to you and George for all your years of service and insight. Oh, Richard and Rebecca are great too.
September 17, 2009 at 11:49 am |
is this channel 12 action news LOL JOHN
September 17, 2009 at 2:55 pm |
LOL!
I love my viewers… They keep me laughing… Channel 12 is your “News Leader”, Channel 47 is “Action News” and of course, Channel 4 is “The Local Station”.
JG
September 26, 2009 at 9:49 pm |
My wife and I are taking a 25th anniversary trip to St. Thomas next week and I am worried about the weather. The report shows showers every day. Will there be any sun or is this just an extended pattern. I have trip insurance and can reschedule. I don’t want to sit in the clouds and rain for 5 days. Can you help me please?
September 28, 2009 at 3:27 pm |
Yes… write me at john@wjxt.com so that I can get more info from you…
JG