WeatherBrains 111: New Possibilities in Severe Weather
WeatherBrains Episode 111 is now online (March 10, 2008). This is THE netcast audio program for people who absolutely love everything weather.
Kevin Selle brings us up-to-date on the latest from TESSA. TESSA is the Texas Severe Storms Association which held their annual meeting in Colleyville, TX, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Descending blobs, tornado research with a big vortex machine at Texas Tech (VORTECH), fences around mobile home parks to disrupt the wind flow, model secrets from Gregory Thompson, some information on studies of the Greensburg tornado, and NSSL has new products, radar resolution enhancements, rotation tracks on radars, and new warning products (see the links below). The discussion focuses on whether or not James Spann’s head will explode with the new warning messages.
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Mailbag: And our very own EMO, E-Mail Officer, Kevin Selle, falls down on the job AGAIN, so James handles the mail bag, taking on feedback from listeners.
US 1 has one a lot of weather since it begins in Key West and ends in Maine, so JB handles some comments about geography and weather. Plus some rants and a humbling experience looking back at an F5 tornado in Central Alabama.
From The Weather Center:
WeatherBrains 101: The Wedge. To most people this might be a simple tool used to separate two items. But to meteorologists the wedge has a special meaning that can reek havoc with forecasts especially in the Southeast. Related to cold air damming, the wedge is a well known phenomena which can still sneak up on a forecaster.
TWIWH: March 11 through 17 featured some cold air and a snow of historic proportion back in 1993 which affected the Southeast and a large area of the eastern US. Bill Murray has a look back at the “Storm of the Century.”
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Web Sites from Episode 110:
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TESSA, Texas Severe Storms Association
Realtime Weather Monitoring with WDSS
James Spann again hosts the show with the usual collection of weather geeks for this look at the field of weather in the latest episode of WeatherBrains.
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