{"id":8,"date":"2007-02-14T18:11:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T00:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/weatherbrains\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-02-17T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T16:41:18","slug":"imagine-snow-drifts-taller-than-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"WeatherBrains 55:  &#8220;F to EF&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style1\"><font face=\"Verdana\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbrains.com\/audio\/wb021207.mp3\" title=\"Episode 55\">WeatherBrains Episode Number 55<\/a> <\/strong>is on the server (February 12, 2007).<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">In this week&#8217;s episode:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">-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;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">-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.\u00c2\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erh.noaa.gov\/buf\/locust\/\">here<\/a> for an interesting\u00c2\u00a0report from the National Weather Service Office in Buffalo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">The Enhanced Fujita Scale:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"8\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weatherbrains.com\/images\/0702tedfujita.gif\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"Dr. Ted Fujita\" height=\"169\" style=\"width: 150px; height: 169px\" title=\"Dr. Ted Fujita\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">-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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wind.ttu.edu\/F_Scale\/default.htm\" title=\"Texas Tech Fujita Project\">lead the effort to revise the scale<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">-First use of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/efscale\/\" title=\"Enhanced Fujita Scale \">Enhanced Fujita scale<\/a> &#8212; we talk with Jim Ladue, a National Weather Service meteorologist who surveyed damage from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/mlb\/surveys\/020207\/index.html\" title=\"NWS Melbourne Damage Report\">deadly tornadoes<\/a> that swept through central Florida just one day after the new scale took effect;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">-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;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">-Brian Peters&#8217; shocking secret revealed &#8212; Brian makes an astonishing confession to David Black, unaware that David was secretly recording him;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">Join James Spann, Kevin Selle, Brian Peters and David Black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeatherBrains Episode Number 55 is on the server (February 12, 2007). 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