WeatherBrains 296: Victoria Reveals Her Secret
WeatherBrains Episode 296 is now online (September 26, 2011). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!
Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Huntsville, Alabama. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri with undergraduate work on convective snowstorms. She came to the University of Alabama in Huntsville to look at hurricane spawned tornado outbreaks. She was a Hollings’ Scholar in 2006 at the NWS in St. Louis. She worked at the NWS Springfield, MO, as an intern and at MDL and Huntsville as a SCEP Intern. She has been in Huntsville for 4 years, including a year at the NWS Office. She is one of the organizers of the Wednesday afternoon Weather and Forecasting Panel Discussion at the upcoming National Weather Association Annual Meeting in Birmingham.
We also have a quick call with Thomas Wilder from Alagasco Helps.
Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:
Kevin is still trying to find an email officer replacement, but without luck he perseveres with our mail bag.
From The Weather Center:
WeatherBrains 101: The science of meteorology has developed over the years thanks to many, many contributors. This week we take a look at one of the pioneers in solar radiation, Samuel Pierpoint Langley.
TWIWH: Bill Murray looks back at the week of September 27th. The hurricane season is heading on the downhill side, but there were still some serious hurricanes to deal with.
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Web Sites from Episode 296:
National Weather Association National Conference
Joplin Tornado Service Assessment Report
Picks of the Week:
JB Elliott – Hurricane Ike Pictures
Bill Murray – Disaster Survey Report on Joplin Tornado
Brian Peters – NASA View of Earth from ISS
Kevin Selle – A Dolphin Tale
James Spann – StormChasers on Discovery Channel
The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like JB Elliott, Kevin Selle, Bill Murray, and Brian Peters. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating netcast about weather.
Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a life long weather enthusiast. Growing up in East Central Illinois, Nolan Doesken was fascinated with thunderstorms, snow, and freezing rain, but appreciated any and all aspects of weather and climate. He went on to study meteorology and oceanography at the University of Michigan in the early 1970s and then came back to get his Masters degree from the University of Illinois in Atmospheric Science in 1976. He went to work for the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, in 1977 and has been there ever since. He was appointed State Climatologist for Colorado in 2006 and recently served as the president of the American Association of State Climatologists from 2008-2010.
