WeatherBrains 55: “F to EF”

WeatherBrains Episode Number 55 is on the server (February 12, 2007).

In this week’s episode:

-Old man winter in full force: A powerful storm system gears up to pound much of the eastern U.S.; James Spann says major winter weather is possible from Kansas all the way to New England, while severe weather could break out further south;

-When the snow is taller than people: We talk with motel manager Lori Oliver in Redfield, New York, where 12 feet of snow has fallen, and more is forecast.  Click here for an interesting report from the National Weather Service Office in Buffalo;

The Enhanced Fujita Scale:

-Brian Peters looks at the updated damage scale designed to give a more accurate indication of tornado wind speeds, by talking with Dr. James McDonald, one of the people who helped lead the effort to revise the scale;

-First use of the Enhanced Fujita scale — we talk with Jim Ladue, a National Weather Service meteorologist who surveyed damage from deadly tornadoes that swept through central Florida just one day after the new scale took effect;

-Two inches of snow falling in the Gulf of Mexico? Bill Murray recalls when that and other wild weather happened along the Gulf Coast during This Week in Weather History;

-Brian Peters’ shocking secret revealed — Brian makes an astonishing confession to David Black, unaware that David was secretly recording him;

Join James Spann, Kevin Selle, Brian Peters and David Black…