He is best known for his 17-year broadcasting tenure as a meteorologist for KNSD-TV the NBC owned and operated television station in San Diego, California.

Joe Lizura holds an American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval, #384[1] and began his television career as a weekend weathercaster at WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1984.

In February 1985, Lizura began his broadcasting career as a weekend weathercaster at the CBS affiliated WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Six months later, in the summer of 1985, Lizura began as the weekday evening weathercaster for WLOX-TV, the ABC affiliate in Biloxi, Mississippi[5] where he subsequently spent the next two years.

[6] In June 1988, Lizura left KCRA and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he became the weekend weathercaster for WLWT-TV, the NBC affiliate, working alongside Jerry Springer who was the primary news anchor at that time.

In 2007, Joe Lizura began working as the morning weathercaster for KUSI-TV,[8] the independent television station in San Diego (2007–2011).

[16] In June 2002, Joe Lizura was selected as the San Diego National Multiple Sclerosis Society's 2002 volunteer of the year.