Former NBC10 meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz could have retired from the airways, mothballed his bow tie collection, and padded around his Jenkintown home all day.

Instead, he continues sharing his climate insights for the public good. Ximena Conde warmed to the assignment of interviewing him for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

After stepping away from 42 years of on-air weather reporting (27 of them on NBC10), Schwartz is now with AKRF, a Mid-Atlantic environmental engineering and consulting firm with offices up and down the East Coast.

He’s still monitoring weather patterns.

But now, it’s to inform engineers who are designing structures and communities. He works to ensure that what they create can withstand the demands of tornadoes, floods, and other atmospheric threats that global warming has increased.

“I’m especially talking about water,” said Schwartz. “… Rainfall, hurricanes, rising sea levels that affect a lot of areas in a lot of cities,” said Schwartz.

Among AKRF projects he’s informing is an effort to boost the climate resiliency of Lower Manhattan.

Aside his consultancy, Schwartz is swimming (a favorite activity when he was in college), doing some freelance writing on weather-related issues, and caring for his bow-tie collection, which was estimated at 200 pieces before his 2022 exit from NBC10.

More on Jenkintown resident Glen Hurricane Schwartz is at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Glen “Hurricane” Schwartz’ last day on the air at NBC10, May 27, 2022.