My hat it tipped to you Richard Hendrickson, you have been observing and reporting the weather, EVERYDAY none-the-less (without fail), for 84 years! So NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..... AKA our Weather Data Center) decided to give thanks and honor his commitment by creating an award named after him.
(Source Article: Popular Science) (This little Snip-et below is from that article)
Generations before anyone came up with the idea of "citizen science," an 18-year-old Richard Hendrickson called in his first weather report to what was then the U.S. Weather Bureau. That was in 1929. Hendrickson is now 101 years old and has provided the National Weather Service with twice-daily observations from his Long Island farm for 84 years.
NOAA has never had a volunteer serve for more than eight decades, the agency says. So, this month, it's created a Richard G. Hendrickson Award, for volunteers who serve for 80 years. Other prestigious Cooperative Observer Program awards are named after Thomas Jefferson, who recorded weather observations for 40 years, and John Campanius Holm, who made the first recorded observations in the U.S., between 1644 and 1645.
Hendrickson goes out to make his observations no matter the weather. In fact, he told NOAA, he prefers it if things are a little exciting: "Taking the weather every day, on nice days, it's monotonous, but then you get the thunder and lightning—bam!" See him talk about the weather, and work at his weather stations, below. Congratulations, Mr. Hendrickson!
He is part of a growing network of some 8700 volunteers from all over The United States.
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