Longtime Seattle TV weather forecaster Steve Pool died this week from early onset Alzheimer’s disease, his family said Friday.

“We are so blessed to have had him in our lives,” wrote his wife, Michelle Lee Pool, on his Facebook page. “He was an extraordinary man, husband, father and good friend to many. Please know that he truly loved his job and this community and felt so privileged to be a part of your lives.”

KOMO 4, for whom Steve Pool, 70, worked for four decades, said he died Wednesday.

“The thing I wanted to do when I got into this was to demystify the weather,” he told The Seattle Times in 2019.

Pool began his career with KOMO after graduating from the University of Washington and won several Emmys for his work, breaking ground as one of the first Black weather forecasters in the country.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Greg Kim: 206-464-2532 or grkim@seattletimes.com; Greg Kim is a reporter covering homelessness for The Seattle Times.