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On 21 June 2023, pioneering TV meteorologist George Winterling
(1931-2023, BS meteorology, FSU, 1957) passed away at age 91. He was
one of the first degreed meteorologists on television. His career as
chief meteorologist at WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, spanned 47
years from 1962 to 2009. In the days before computer graphics, he
mounted a TV camera looking down on a horizontal map. He drew
weather features on a piece of clear glass on top of the map and
slid the glass over the map to show motion. When Florida had wild
fires, he squirted lighter fluid on the glass and lit it. In 1978,
he created the "humiture" index to combine the effects of summertime
humidity and high temperature. The National Weather Service adopted
its own "heat index" the following year. George was an ardent
Seminole who aided FSU weathercasting with his expertise and who
included FSU weathercasting in his will. For years, even before
moving into the new EOAS Building, our departmental TV studio has
honored George Winterling with a commemorative plaque. For more
about his illustrious career, see:<br>
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<p>The first picture below shows George attending our annual
student-alumni weathercasting workshop in Fall 2006. The second
picture shows the commemorative plaque at the EOAS
weathercasting studio.<br>
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