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George Winterling
George Alfred Winterling (born September 9, 1931) is a retired television weatherman. He was the creator of the "heat index". Chief Meteorologist for television station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida for almost fifty years,〔Kerr, Jessie-Lynn: ("After nearly 50 years, TV-4's Winterling leaves daily duties" ) Florida Times-Union, April 24, 2009〕 Winterling helped develop modern forecasting.〔("George Winterling: A Lifelong Passion For Weather" ) WJXT Channel 4, April 23, 2009〕
==Education==
Winterling was born in New Jersey, but moved with his family to Jacksonville at age 10. He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School〔(" School History" ) Duval County Public Schools, Lee High School〕 in 1949 and joined the United States Air Force. After discovering that cadet training required two years of college, he chose meteorology and was sent to ''Weather Observers School'' at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. He was stationed for a year at Turner Air Force Base in Albany, Georgia, then attended ''Intermediate Meteorology School'' at Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater. He was posted to Shemya Air Force Base in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska where he observed the Pacific Ocean's killer storms.〔
After leaving the service in 1954, he attended Jacksonville Junior College (now Jacksonville University), transferred to Florida State University and earned a meteorology degree in 1957. He was initially employed by the ''United States Weather Bureau'' (now known as the National Weather Service) and stayed there for five years.
Hurricane Donna was a major 1960 hurricane which made landfall at Marathon, moved into the Gulf of Mexico, came ashore north of Naples, crossed the state and returned to the Atlantic Ocean at Daytona Beach before skirting the east coast all the way to Canada. Over 17 days, the storm was responsible for over 350 deaths and $900 million in damages. The hurricane piqued Winterling's interest. It convinced him that "the media needed knowledgeable persons doing weathercasts in times of emergencies" such as hurricanes.〔〔Winterling, George: ("GEORGE WINTERLING'S SHEMYA SCRAPBOOK 1953" ) Shemya Post-WWII scrapbooks〕
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