Ohio News & Weather Meteorologist (2022-present)

Hello! My name is Mike Joyce and I come to the Ohio News & Weather with more than ten years of weather forecasting experience across Ohio, eastern Indiana, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

I am a native of Mansfield, Ohio, which provided plenty of interesting weather phenomena to hook me into a lifelong love of meteorology. I graduated from Ohio State in 2012 with a degree in atmospheric science. After graduation, I returned home to Mansfield to work at WMFD-TV and Mix 106.1 FM. There, I was responsible for weekday weathercasts on WMFD and most dayparts on Mix 106. I truly enjoyed this opportunity to serve my hometown community. After a little more than a year, I headed to WFMJ- TV in Youngstown, where I worked as the station’s weekend evening meteorologist. I was also their primary fill-in, frequently helping during the week covering vacations and severe weather.

After nearly two years in Youngstown, I accepted an offer to work at ABC 22 and FOX 45 in Dayton, now known collectively as Dayton 24/7 Now. I spent more than five years in the Miami Valley covering mornings, evenings, and certainly plenty of severe weather events. My most memorable moments working in Dayton were the 3/14/2016 tornado that impacted Phillipsburg in Montgomery County, and certainly, covering the aftermath of the Memorial Day tornado outbreak in Western Ohio. This was truly a humbling experience, where I got to share the resilience of the people who lived in impacted communities by focusing on the positive roles that the kindhearted members of each community played in rebuilding after the storm.

In April 2020, I decided to make a big change and go back to school to earn my master’s degree in education. I am now hoping to be a high school science teacher this autumn! However, I am still active in the meteorology community, and joining Ohio News & Weather will allow me to continue to follow my passion for weather, while building upon my new enthusiasm for education and science literacy!