WeatherBrains 146: Secondary Severe Weather Season
WeatherBrains Episode 146 is now online (November 10, 2008). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!
The secondary severe weather season is a major event across the Southeast US, so our guest for this episode is Tim Troutman, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL. The season centers on November but can begin in late October and last into the first couple of weeks of December. One of the biggest Fall tornadoes occurred in Huntsville in November, 1989, and another one on December 16, 2000, in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:
Our mail bag has been getting some attention and Kevin puts it in perspective.
From The Weather Center:
WeatherBrains 101: This week the Professor tackles scales – not the bathroom kind – but the various scales of weather.
TWIWH: Bill Murray looks back at the week of November 11th through the 17th. This week features a look back at a big storm in 1940. It is interesting to note that while forecasts were not too reliable, the Chicago Weather Bureau office was not staffed at night, so the rapidly developing storm did not get the notice it deserved. Bill has all the details on one of the deadliest blizzards in US history.
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Web Sites from Episode 146:
Picks of the Week:
Brian Peters – Nikon DSLR
James Spann – Earl Barker’s Weather Web Site
JB Elliott – Percent of cloud cover and US weather stats
Dr. Tim Coleman – Arctic Weather Information
Join James Spann, JB Elliott, Dr. Tim Coleman, and Brian Peters as they come together for another fascinating netcast about the weather.
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WeatherBrains 101: Spikes, spikes, spikes. Did you know that radar has more than one kind of spike? Yup, they do. Last week it was sunrise/sunset spikes, but there’s also hail spikes or more technically called Three Body Scatter. Ye olde professor takes a look at this aspect of radar.
