WeatherBrains 626: Everyone is a Big Wuss
WeatherBrains Episode 626 is now online (January 15, 2018). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!
Joining us this evening are Mark Taylor and Dr. Brock Burghart from WeatherBell. Mark comes to us from Atlanta, GA, while Dr. Burghart is in Colorado.
We also have Kurt Korte from Surfline. He is lead forecaster at Surfline. Kurt is primarily an Atlantic forecaster. Having some dialogue on the forecast challenges of each basin could be interesting. A couple of other potential topics – Who Surfline is and what we do, the basics of wave forecasting, tools we use to forecast waves, what it means to be the official forecaster for the World Surf League, interesting real time wave events (the North Atlantic and North Pacific are both very active right now with storms/swells).
Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:
- Extremes: 81 at Thermal, CA, and -33 at Estcourt Station, ME
- Major cold across eastern US
- Snow impacting Southeast US
- With so much cold, no severe weather threats
- Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice
- and more!
Our email bag officer is staying up-to-date on the incoming messages from our listeners.
From The Weather Center:
WeatherBrains 101: The Southeast US is facing it’s second snow event of the 2017-18 winter season, so it seemed appropriate to dust of the notes about measuring snow.
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Web Sites from Episode 626:
Picks of the Week:
Brock Burghart – HRRR Ensemble
Kurt Korte – Hokule’a – A Voyage Of Hope
Bill Murray – Facebook page for Ada Monzon
Brian Peters – 15 Incredibly Cool Facts about Snow
Rick Smith – 1968 snow
James Spann – NCEP SREF Plume Viewer
Aubrey Urbanowicz – Ginger Zee’s book
The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Brian Peters, Bill Murray, Aubrey Urbanowicz, Rick Smith, Kevin Selle, and Nate Johnson. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating netcast about weather.
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