Jonathan Stacey currently provides traffic reports for WBTV News This Morning, co-hosts QC Morning and delivers the weather forecast for the WBTV News at Noon.
He joined us from WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida where we worked as a meteorologist and environmental reporter. Jonathan has also held on-air positions in Bowling Green, KY, Bristol, VA and Huntsville, AL.
Jonathan was born in East Alabama and spent most of his childhood years in Middle and East Tennessee. He's an honors graduate of Middle Tennessee State University where he completed his degree in electronic media communications. Jonathan also earned his theological studies graduate degree from Vanderbilt University.
He also completed his meteorology training at Mississippi State University. Jonathan holds memberships with the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society.
As an undergraduate, Jonathan was selected for and completed a fellowship with NBC News in New York City. He interned at WTVF-TV and WKRN-TV in Nashville. After graduation, Jonathan started his career as an associate producer at WSMV-TV.
Jonathan is a licensed clergyman and has served in various ministerial roles in congregations in Alabama and Tennessee. He is also a proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated and the National Association of Black Journalists.
When he’s off on-air, Jonathan is likely in the gym or sitting before a great meal at a local restaurant or on a plane heading to his next travel destination.
If you’d like Jonathan to speak or make an appearance at you next event, please email him at jstacey@wbtv.com.
After starting out with temperatures in the upper 60s and lower 70s, the thermometer’s mercury will soar to the lower 90s under partly cloudy skies Friday afternoon.
A combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will lead to elevated heat index values ranging from the mid 90s to near 100 this afternoon. There’s also the potential for the development of a few isolated thunderstorms this afternoon.
Today's cloud cover will soon give way to another round of isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms during the late afternoon and early evening hours as an upper level disturbances impacts our weather pattern in the short-term.
Expect mostly sunny skies for the remainder of the day as highs reach the mid 70s in the higher elevations and the low to mid 80s elsewhere across the WBTV viewing area.
Some communities including Charlotte could experiences isolated gusty winds and heavy downpours over a relatively short-period of time before the system moves out and stalls just southeast of the WBTV viewing area later tonight.
While the first part of the day is dry, a First Alert has been declared as strong thunderstorms will likely develop across the WBTV viewing area before Wednesday comes to a close.
Some of these storm cells could potentially produce abundant of lightning, gusty winds and hail up to an inch in diameter as they trek west to east across the WBTV viewing area into the early evening hours.
While most areas are sticky and warm, they are dry - at least of the moment. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible through the late afternoon and early evening hours.
The remnants of Bertha brought heavy downpours and flooding issues to Charlotte Wednesday after forming into a Tropical Storm and making landfall along the South Carolina coast earlier in the day.
Heavy tropical downpours and intermittent gusts will spread across the WBTV viewing this evening and into early Thursday morning, with the highest rainfall amounts mainly favoring communities east of the I-77 corridor as the center of the storm moves over Central North Carolinas.
After a summer-like Sunday, Monday’s highs will reach the upper 70s across Piedmont with temperatures topping out in the low to mid-70s in the Foothills and Mountains this afternoon.
The wet weather is on pause for the first half of the day, but there is a decent chance for the development of scattered storms this afternoon and into the early evening.
A straw pop-up shower isn't out of the question for the higher elevations during the latter part of the day, but overall rain chances are really low and will remain so through the weekend.
