Amado Pineda in his younger years. Screengrab, GMA News’ “24 Oras”.
Veteran weatherman Amado Pineda passed away on Thursday due to cardiac arrest, GMA news reported Thursday night.
He was 77.
Anchor Mel Tiangco said in the report that Pineda had been suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Pineda, a meteorologist with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), was the first widely recognized weatherman on Philippine television.
He was a household name for doing weather forecasts on GMA Network’s evening newscast from the 1970s to the 1980s. YG/TVJ
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