For 37 years, Harry Hillaker has been  Iowa’s state climatologist. After this week he will be Harry Hillaker, retiree.

Iowa’s only other state climatologist, Paul Waite, hired Hillaker.

Waite was Iowa’s state climatologist from 1976 to 1988, when Hillaker took the job. Hillaker plans to do some traveling, but will keep Iowa as his home in retirement.