Gary Swails

Gary Swails is the Chief Meteorologist for WABM-TV in Metropolis. He is in charge of the 5, 6 & 11 P.M. weather reports on Channel 7 Eyewitness News.

Career
Gary Swails started his career in 1977 at WMOX-TV in Jefferson City, Centralia as the Weekend Evening Meteorologist. One year later, he became the Chief Meteorologist at WMOX.

In 1982, he started at WDRW-TV in Woodrow, Centralia as Weeknight Meteorologist. That caught the attention of Station Owners in the Deloyt TV Market, then the seventh largest TV market in the country.

In 1985, he went to WTUV-TV in Deloyt as Weekend Evening Meterologist. The Associated Broadcasting Company, as the O&O of WTUV, saw Swails' potential and promoted him once again. This time to Metropolis, the country's largest market.

Swails became the 5 PM meteorologist at WABM-TV Metropolis in 1988. He took over as Chief Meteorologist, replacing the retiring Clark Daniels, in 1991.