Juliana Mejia, Author at WINK News - Page 2 of 10

Juliana Mejia joined the WINK News team as a Bilingual Meteorologist in June of 2022. She grew up in the Chicagoland area and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma.

While still in college, during the summer leading into her senior year, she worked part-time as an on-air meteorologist for KCCI Des Moines, IA.

For her senior capstone research project, she and her collaborators studied the psychological attunement and understanding of extreme weather of the Hispanic/Latinx communities in the United States. They successfully expanded the scope of their research beyond the class project, obtaining two significant research grants to conduct paid surveys of over 1000 Spanish speakers nationwide. This research is her passion project as it is the crossroads of her personal and professional goals of improving weather communication for one of the fastest-growing populations in the country.

Their research was accepted for presentation at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 49th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology/Sixth Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication in June of 2022.

Being one of the few minority students in her class in the School of Meteorology, Juliana hopes to inspire young students and see more minorities in STEM and meteorology in the future.

Her other interests include staying active by working out, spending time outdoors, rock-climbing, singing, playing ukulele or piano, reading, watercolor painting, and traveling!

Articles by Juliana Mejia

Rain chances Wednesday morning, scattered afternoon storms

Wednesday morning brings a chance to see a few stray sprinkles. By lunchtime, a few showers will begin popping up before quickly developing into heavy showers and storms by 2 p.m.

More scattered storms Thursday; 1 week until hurricane season

Conditions Thursday afternoon will be similar to Wednesday, with showers and storms beginning just after lunchtime and continuing, on and off, across the area until the evening.

Sun, clouds along coast, few storms inland Thursday

Rain chances Thursday will behave similarly to Wednesday, with storms developing inland and tracking eastward through the afternoon and evening.

Decreasing cloud cover along coast, few storms inland Wednesday

Chances for rain and storms reside inland, far east of the interstate Wednesday afternoon. Areas along the coast can expect moderate cloud cover to start that will decrease into mostly sunny skies by the early afternoon.

Isolated storms, more near-record heat Thursday

Isolated storms are expected to develop as early as the mid-afternoon but primarily through the evening hours into Thursday night along the I-75 corridor and coastal areas.

Isolated storms, near-record heat Wednesday afternoon

Isolated storms are primarily expected for inland areas Wednesday, beginning in the late afternoon and lasting until tonight.

Hot Tuesday afternoon with greater humidity

Tuesday afternoon high temperatures will continue in the lower 90s for most of Southwest Florida.

Mostly sunny conditions lead to another hot Monday afternoon

High temperatures will soar into the lower 90s once again Monday afternoon as conditions remain mainly clear and dry.

Hot Friday with chances for stray showers inland

Most of Southwest Florida will stay dry this afternoon and mainly high-level clouds will allow temperatures to warm up to the lower 90s.

Sunny skies, lower humidity prompt high fire risk for SWFL

Due to low humidity and the fact that much of Southwest Florida is still experiencing severe drought, nearly all of our counties have active burn bans Thursday, with the exception of Charlotte County.