In the early 1970s, he began working as a full-time meteorologist at KOA-TV in Denver, Colorado, and spent several years in the city.

[2] During his lengthy broadcasting career, Fletcher flew aboard reconnaissance aircraft missions into three hurricanes and made 15 different penetrations into the eyes of those storms.

In 1987, he was honored by the American Meteorological Society with an award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist.

[4] This left Fletcher without his weather equipment, and he was the last to know about the sudden eastward shift of the storm as a result.

He was forced to broadcast out of Pinellas 18's ill-equipped studios using a Windows PC with a basic radar image as his makeshift weather station.

[7] On February 26, 2009, Fletcher's former WTSP colleagues paid tribute to the man they affectionately remembered as "Fletch.