WeatherBrains 70: “Next Generation”
WeatherBrains Episode 70 is now online (May 28, 2007) The netcast for people who love weather.
In this week’s episode:
WeatherBrains Extra: GOES-R … What will the next generation of weather satellites carry aloft, and what will it mean for weather forecasting? David Black gets a preview of GOES-R, planned for launch in December, 2014, from Tim Schmit, a NOAA satellite meteorologist assigned to the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center;
What’s In A Name: Last week we heard questions about funding and naming going on within NOAA, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administation. We’ll hear more from Bill Proenza, Director of the National Hurricane Center and Anson Franklin, Director of the NOAA Office of Communications;
WeatherBrains 101: Join us as Professor Peters looks into Evaporative Cooling;
A different sort of Weather Trouble Maker: James Spann shares details of the hostile encounter he had with a heckler while speaking about manmade global warming;
This Week In Weather History: What started as two days of heavy rains during this week in 1889 led to one of the greatest American disasters ever … and Bill Murray looks at what happened in 1879, when politics set tornado forecasting back more than half a decade;
“Funny, you don’t look like a weather man…” J. B. Elliott recalls a young visitor’s vision of what forecasters are supposed to look like…
Join James Spann, J. B. Elliott, Brian Peters, Bill Murray and David Black…..
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