[1] Schwartz was born on February 20, 1953, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[2] where he grew up and earned a degree in psychology from Temple University.
[1] Schwartz joined the Weather Channel in 1982, initially as a newsroom assistant while working for the Fulton County Health Department in Georgia.
Shortly after NBC/Comcast bought The Weather Channel in 2008, Schwartz was one of a handful of longtime on-camera meteorologists who were laid off in a shakeup that sought to send the network in a new direction.
After years of viewer feedback—including a website called "Bring Back Dave Schwartz"—the network rehired him in the spring of 2014.
[3] Schwartz died on July 30, 2016, after a ten-year battle with pancreatic and stomach cancer, the former of which he beat twice.