[Eoas-seminar] George Winterling (1931-2023, BS meteorology, FSU, 1957)

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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:

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/06/22/longtime-meteorologist-george-winterling-dies-at-91/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Winterling
https://www.iweathernet.com/educational/history-broadcast-meteorology

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.

	

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