{"id":31,"date":"2007-06-11T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/weatherbrains\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-06-12T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T01:35:40","slug":"weatherbrains-72-long-hot-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"WeatherBrains 72: &#8220;Long Hot Summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbrains.com\/audio\/wb061107.mp3\" title=\"Episode 72\">WeatherBrains Episode 72<\/a><\/strong> is now online (June 11, 2007)  The netcast for people who love weather.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s Episode:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Deadly Sizzler<\/strong>:  Looking back at the heatwave of 1980, one definitely for the record books.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering <strong>early TV weather coverage<\/strong>:  Flashing light bulbs on studio maps &#8230; and weather anchors who could write backwards on plexiglass;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenging times<\/strong> for the National Weather Service:  The NWS names <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaanews.noaa.gov\/stories2007\/s2871.htm\" title=\"NWS names Jack Hayes Director\">Dr. Jack Hayes<\/a> as its new Director &#8230; and is the agency failing at one of its challenges?<\/p>\n<p><strong>WeatherBrains 101<\/strong>: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbrains.com\/images\/070611lightningsm.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" height=\"104\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"70\" \/>Lightning &#8230;  Join us as Professor Peters teaches us about this fascinating phenomenon;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Week In Weather History<\/strong>: We look at a very noteworthy time in weather history for a man whose name became synonymous with tornado research &#8230; and one man&#8217;s death five years ago this week meant that hurricane watchers lost Hope.   Bill Murray has details;<\/p>\n<p>Join James Spann, J. B. Elliott, Brian Peters and David Black&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Websites featured in this episode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\" title=\"NOAA\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We would love to hear from you! To leave a recorded message, call <strong>1-888-247-8627<\/strong>. Some calls may be used in future episodes. Also, feel free to post comments to the site and send us an email at <a href=\"mailto:question@weatherbrains.com\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">question@weatherbrains.com<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbrains.com\/images\/smalllogo.jpg\" alt=\"WeatherBrains\" style=\"width: 448px; height: 112px\" title=\"WeatherBrains\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"112\" width=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeatherBrains Episode 72 is now online (June 11, 2007) The netcast for people who love weather. In this week&#8217;s Episode: The Deadly Sizzler: Looking back at the heatwave of 1980, one definitely for the record books. Remembering early TV weather coverage: Flashing light bulbs on studio maps &#8230; and weather anchors who could write backwards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}