oday marks the 60th anniversary of Hurricane Dora, the only recorded hurricane to ever directly hit Northeast Florida. On this day in 1964, Hurricane Dora made landfall near St. Augustine as a Category 2 storm, forever changing the landscape of the region.

For the first time in Nassau County, Florida Power & Light gave out hurricane meal kits to some of the area's older residents on Monday.

A reflection of longtime Channel 4 Chief Meteorologist George Winterling.

There are many words that could be used to describe WJXT Chief meteorologist, George Winterling — a veteran of the United States Air Force. A beloved husband and devoted family man. A pioneer in the field of TV meteorology.

We asked our viewers to share their memories of legendary Channel 4 meteorologist George Winterling after he passed away this week at the age of 91. The stories they wrote to us were too heartwarming to keep to ourselves.

There was no shortage of laughter during George Winterling's career. He loved to tease his colleagues and crack jokes in the studio. Everyone loved George — except maybe one.

George Winterling's weather legacy pioneered broadcast satellite imagery and the heat index.

George Winterling served as WJXT 4's first chief meteorologist and held the position for 47 years before retiring in 2009. He passed away Wednesday at the age of 91.

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

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.

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.

Not many people can say they’ve impacted generations of people living in and around Jacksonville, but George Winterling could.

My wife Laurie warned me “not to ramble on about my life.” My response? “YOLO!" So, grab a cup of coffee, and let’s go!

Chief Meteorologist John Gaughan celebrates 30 years of working at WJXT-Channel 4.

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.

WJXT meteorologist George Winterling was the only forecaster to accurately predict Hurricane Dora's path.

Tonight’s forecast low is 23° and if we should see this number it will be the coldest Jacksonville has seen since 2014.

Been quite the period of rainy days, going back a couple of weekends, we have seen up to 8″ of rain across the area.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Rounds of heavy rain throughout Monday flooded streets, including some along Jacksonville Beach. Photos shared by a News4Jax viewer showed some of the high flooding along 3rd Street near Fletcher Middle School. There was also severe flooding nearby in Neptune Beach, where the Police Department placed barricades along First Street. Hank Watson said Jacksonville Beach firefighters had to come to her aid. If you see flooding in your neighborhood, send your photos and video to the News4Jax Facebook page.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On Sept. 15, 1949, Channel 4 signed on as WMBR as the first television station in Jacksonville and the second in the entire state of Florida. In 1952, anchor Bill Grove was hired to host a daily news broadcast and help invent local television news. That transition required some innovation and wasn't always easy, but it truly made us The Local Station. In January 2017, our parent company bought WCWJ-17 and we program the two Jacksonville stations to complement each other. Many of us, including those mentioned already, spent most of our careers in this Jacksonville and at this television station.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - On Sept. 15, 1949, Channel 4 signed on as WMBR as the first television station in Jacksonville and the second in the entire state of Florida. In 1952, anchor Bill Grove was hired to host a daily news broadcast and help invent local television news. That transition required some innovation and wasn't always easy, but it truly made us The Local Station. In January 2017, our parent company bought WCWJ-17 and we program the two Jacksonville stations to complement each other. In its 69 years, The Local Station has evolved, grown and accomplished many things and been honored to remain Jacksonville's top-rated source of local television news.

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...

Young singer, Virginia Atter, along with future sportscaster Dick Stratton was hired to do commercials and host talk shows on Jacksonville television. Chief Meteorologist George Winterling was the first to accurately predict the path of Hurricane Dora in 1962 and the first snowy Christmas in 1989. After 19 years together, Deborah Gianoulis, Tom Willis, Sam Kouvaris and George Winterling were the longest running news team in the nation.. In 2017, the WJXT still has the top rated newscasts in Jacksonville, and often has the most viewers in other dayparts, as well. While many people have made their careers at this television station, some WJXT alumni have gone on to big jobs at the networks, such as 60 minutes' Steve Kroft, CBS veterans Randall Pinkston and Bruce Hall and ABC's Karla Davis.

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 |

Over more than four decades of daily forecasting, George Winterling progressed from drawing his own weather maps with a Magic Marker to magnetic boards to static satellite maps to live radar and beyond.

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.