SEATTLE (AP) — Longtime former KIRO-TV meteorologist Harry Wappler has died.
KIRO-TV reports that Wappler, 73, who worked at the station for 33 years, died Thursday at Overlake Hospital.
Wappler joined the television station in 1969. He was the face of weather coverage there until he retired in 2002.
He graduated from Northwestern University and earned a graduate degree at Yale Divinity School. Wappler was also an ordained Episcopal priest.
After his retirement in 2002, his son Andy took over as Chief Meteorologist at KIRO until 2008.
