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Mike Buresh

American meteorologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6846185
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Michael Buresh is the Chief Meteorologist on Action News at WJAX-TV/WFOX-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. He broadcasts the weather on all evening newscasts (4, 6:30 and 10 p.m. on WFOX-TV and 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 on WJAX-TV and WFOX-TV).

Mike studied meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He also chased storms and was employed by the National Weather Service while in college. He graduated from Iowa State University.

Shortly after graduating, Mike became a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist.

Mike has been employed by WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa and at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 93-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mike, Buresh and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Mike Buresh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.