Longtime Boston Weatherman Barry Burbank To Retire

BOSTON, MA — Legendary Boston-area weatherman Barry Burbank will deliver his final forecast Sunday (and unfortunately it's looking like an icky one). Burbank, a mainstay at WBZ-TV for 42 years, will retire following Sunday's 11 p.m. broadcast, the network announced.

WBZ said Burbank has been on air longer than anyone in the station's history. He began working there in March 1978 after making a name for himself as Maine's first professional meteorologist. According to his biography, Burbank is the region's longest-tenured broadcast meteorologist.

Burbank has received numerous awards for his work, including the 2006 Award for Outstanding Service by a Broadcast Meteorologist, a national honor presented by the American Meteorological Society. He was inducted into the Mass. Broadcasters Hall of Fame last year.

WBZ honored Burbank with a ">tribute video posted to Twitter, in which is colleagues described him as kind, generous and a "legend."