WeatherBrains 135: Tropic Topics
WeatherBrains Episode 135 is now online (August 25, 2008). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!
The Weather Brains crew has a special guest with us tonight – Fay! And Fay has been a tremendous annoyance but at the same time a tremendously beneficial storm. You’ll have to listen to find out how she can do both.
Plus there is a new player on the tropical field – Gustav. Forming in the Caribbean in close proximity to where Fay formed, the guys from Weather Brains give their predictions on where it might go.
There are rants and there are rants, and there is a big one coming from Brian Peters on the proliferation of product names from the National Weather Service.
James Spann looks into the mailbag for comments and questions. And this week we have a mail bag entry from Australia.
From The Weather Center: Fuji whata? Me thinks that Professor Peters has been looking at spinning storms for too, too long. The result is a discussion of the Fujiwara effect or interaction when two storms get reasonably close and begin to affect one another.
This Week in Weather History: Bill Murray has some information on the week of August 28th which features a number of hurricanes which made landfall in the US, names like Andrew, Katrina, and others.
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