E-mail Mike ยปMike is a self-professed weather"holic". His fascination with weather developed at a very young age while growing up in rural Iowa.
He began his college education at Oklahoma University where, besides studying, he also storm chased and worked at the National Weather Service. Mike continued his education at Iowa State University where he graduated in 1987. Shortly after graduating Mike earned the American Meteorological Society's "Seal of Approval" and has also achieved his Certification for Broadcast Meteorologist which certifies that Mike meets specific educational and experience criteria and has passed rigorous testing in his knowledge and communication of meteorology and related sciences needed to be an effective broadcast meteorologist.
Buresh began his television meteorology career at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa and most recently at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio before coming to the First Coast.
Mike was a member of the CBS47 News at 11 team which won the Edward R. Murrow award for "Best Newscast" in Florida and Georgia in 2006. Mike is also a member of the Jacksonville Salvation Army Advisory Board.
He has traveled extensively including trips to Australia, Asia, Central and South America, Galapagos Islands and twice to Africa.
When Mike isn't forecasting your weather he enjoys golf, basketball, water skiing and, most of all, spending time with his lovely wife, daughters and "best friend", Butch, the dog.
