Archive for April 30th, 2007

WeatherBrains 66: “Policy and Law”

WeatherBrains Episode 66 is now online (April 30, 2007).

Welcome to WeatherBrains, a weekly audio program for people who love weather. Please take a minute to visit our new global warming sister site, ClimateBrains…but prepare to be nice, this is a no fighting zone.

In this week’s episode:

DART BusGet Off The Bus Part II: David goes right to the source to find out more about passengers getting off of a Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) bus that stopped because of a Tornado Warning. We hear from Frank Jennings, VP of Transportation for DART;

Wx RadioNew Home – New Radio: A hot topic on WeatherBrains, weather radios and mobile homes. Indiana now has a law requiring new mobile homes to be equipped with emergency weather radios. We’ll talk with Phil Hoy, the Indiana State Representative who sponsored the bill;

Around The Roundtable: Summertime forecast frustration and cold, cold, cold temperatures in the arrowhead of Minnesota;

The Week In Weather: An update from tornado-ravaged Enterprise, AL…airlines affected by weather…and some strange weather news from “across the pond”;

This Week In Weather History: One of the pioneers of U. S. weather forecasting…chasing the chasers…and a new channel that changed the weather for all of us. Bill Murray has This Week In Weather History;

WeatherBrains 101WeatherBrains 101: We’ll have to start calling him Professor Peters. Each week, Brian brings definitions for weather terms and subjects. This week: What does GFS stand for, anyway? Have a term you have been wondering about? Send an email and an apple to the teacher at question@weatherbrains.com;

Websites featured in this episode:

Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Satellite smoke from south Georgia

ClimateBrains

Join James Spann, Kevin Selle, J.B. Elliott and David Black…

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