Well-known meteorologist George Winterling, who served as chief meteorologist at WJXT, has died at the age of 91.

He embodied what a renowned figure should be. George was a modest man who was well-known for his kindness and caring to people throughout his life. Keep reading to know more about George Winterling and his cause of death in detail.

Who was George Winterling?

George Winterling was an American television meteorologist.

Winterling served as the chief meteorologist for television station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida, for nearly fifty years. He contributed to the advancement of contemporary forecasting. George and Virginia wed in 1956; they have 3 children together (Wendy Gale, Frank, and Steve), as well as a number of grandkids.

They took a trip to Alaska to go back to the base where George was stationed in 1953 in celebration of their golden wedding anniversary. They live in Jacksonville’s Mandarin neighborhood.

The “heat index” was created by him. The heat index (HI), which measures air temperature and relative humidity in shaded regions, attempts to predict how hot it would feel if the humidity in the shade were at a different value. The outcome is additionally referred to as the “felt air temperature,” “apparent temperature,” “real feel,” or “feels like.”

Education

Winterling was born in New Jersey, and at the age of ten, he relocated to Jacksonville with his family. In 1949, after completing his high school education at Robert E. Lee, he enlisted in the US Air Force. He decided on meteorology and was sent to the Weather Observers School at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, after learning that cadet training needed two years of college.

After spending a year at Turner Air Force Base in Albany, Georgia, he went to Oklahoma A&M’s Intermediate Meteorology School in Stillwater. He was stationed at Shemya Air Force Base in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, where he got to see the deadly storms that formed in the Pacific Ocean.

He attended Jacksonville Junior College (now Jacksonville University) after leaving the military in 1954, then went to Florida State University where he graduated with a degree in meteorology in 1957. At first, he worked for the United States Weather Bureau, which is now the National Weather Service, for five years.

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