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For 50 years on WJXT, forecasting temperatures, rainfall and storms was the biggest role of this legendary meteorologist who “lived and breathed” weather. George Winterling was also known, both to his television fans and to his neighbors in Beauclerc, for his love of gardening.

George Winterling was already a beloved member of the community and a legend among television meteorologists when I came to the station two decades later.

Let us know how WJXT-Channel 4 Chief Meteorologist Emeritus, George Winterling, impacted your life.

As we mark the 200th anniversary of Jacksonville, we turn to a longtime resident to take us back in time to the Jacksonville he remembers. George Winterling moved to our area in 1941. He was just a boy; his father moved the family from New Jersey when Winterling was about 10 years old.

As we continue to mark the 200th anniversary of the city of Jacksonville, we are looking back at another significant event in our city's history: Hurricane Dora. It is the only recorded storm to ever directly hit Northeast Florida. Jennifer Waugh sat down with legendary WJXT meteorologist George Winterling, who was the only local meteorologist to forecast that Dora would hit our area.

The ever-popular and longtime local meteorologist George Winterling released a memoir in late February. Chasing The Wind, Memories of a Pioneer TV Meteorologist is sweetly dedicated to Winterling's wife, Virginia. The book details George's childhood, his five decades as a pioneer meteorologist at WJXT- including predicting Hurricane Dora to the active 2004 hurricane season. All...

A dozen years before he was hired to deliver the weather on WJXT, a young George Winterling watched with interest as Jacksonville first television station signed on the air. Photos of a 53-year career |

Anyone who has watched television in greater Jacksonville in the past half century knows George Winterling by name. What they probably don’t know is how Winterling developed a lifelong passion for the weather and how he helped invent the field of television weather forecasting.