Longtime Fort Collins meteorologist Jim Wirshborn wins National Weather Service award Jacy Marmaduke, Fort Collins Coloradoan
Fort Collins weatherman Jim Wirshborn won a prestigious award from the National Weather Service this week, and it got him thinking about the Vietnam War draft.
Wirshborn narrowly avoided getting drafted in his 20s. He remembers his number being just one digit off from the highest draft number in one of the lottery rounds. But I still wanted to serve my country in some way, Wirshborn recalled, and that s what I ve been trying to do with my weather stuff. It s a small thing, but in the long run . it’s contributed greatly to knowing what the climate is. It impacts so many different things.