Jax Weatherman Writes a Book
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Longtime Jacksonville, Florida Weatherman George Winterling is telling his life story in a book.
Winterling spent years at WJXT in Jacksonville and while he has been off the air for a few years, the old folks in North Florida miss him.
So, Winterling decided to write a book called "Breaking Wind".......errrrrrr..... sorry..."Chasing the Wind."
In the book's forward why he penned the memoir, "In our early years we read about history. In our later years, we become history... ...and know, that as I enter the twilight of my life, I have been thinking about you. I have tried to recall my adventures from childhood and family life to manhood and career. This memoir is an attempt to record for you some of the steps I took while walking this long journey in life before the passage of time caused those memories to fade. "
In the book, Winterling talks about how he created and copyrighted space-view maps to portray weather systems across the country, how he created the practice of predicting rainfall chances, and created the heat index, or humiture as he coined it.
WJXT's General Manager Bob Ellis describes some of George's impact and accomplishments, "George Winterling is as famous as it gets. He pioneered the way we do weather, he helped us understand how we can make it relevant to viewers. He was the first to invent satellite maps. He painted clouds on them. He was the first in television to predict rainfall. He created the humidity/temperature thing we call the humiture or how hot the humidity combined with the temperature makes the air feel. The National Weather Service today calls it the heat index.”
