One of Georgia’s longest weather observers, Willis Swint of Jonesboro, was profiled in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article this weekend here. He recently received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the National Weather Service for over 50 years of daily weather measurements.
We are grateful for the six decades of service that Mr. Swint has provided to the country by faithfully taking weather observations every day at his feed store. We all depend on these observations to monitor the climate for droughts, keep track of chill hours and growing degree days, and trace the changes in climate over time. These folks perform an invaluable service to all of us at little or no cost.
