Robert Speta

Robert Speta is an Emmy Award–winning broadcast meteorologist with nearly two decades of experience spanning operational forecasting, international broadcasting, and extreme weather coverage. His career in meteorology began in 2005 while serving with the U.S. Navy, first stationed at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida.

Today, Robert wears several professional hats. He is a broadcast meteorologist at First Coast News, works as a consulting meteorologist for a variety of companies, and leads ongoing tropical forecasting efforts across the Western Pacific through WesternPacificWeather.com, where he specializes in typhoons impacting Asia and the Pacific Basin.

Robert’s career has taken him across the globe, forecasting weather in 17 countries and across three different oceans. He spent five years on television in Tokyo, Japan, working with NHK, the largest broadcaster in East Asia. His field experience includes chasing typhoons for The Weather Channel, reporting from blizzards and tornado outbreaks, and filming near actively erupting volcanoes.

In 2017, Robert was part of an Emmy-winning newscast for coverage of catastrophic flash flooding near Rochester, New York. Prior to his broadcasting career, he earned multiple Naval Achievement Medals as a Navy meteorologist. One of his most notable assignments was during Operation Tomodachi, where he provided weather support following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, including tracking winds and forecasting potential radiation fallout—making him one of the few American meteorologists to have performed real-world radiation dispersion forecasting.

Robert maintains a strong and active digital presence, with over 250,000 followers on Facebook and more than 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, where he delivers accessible, science-based weather coverage from local forecasts to global tropical analysis.

You can follow Robert Speta on social media at:
Facebook: RobertSpetaWeather
X (Twitter): @RobertSpetaWx