{"id":9,"date":"2007-02-19T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/weatherbrains\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-02-20T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T17:21:18","slug":"weatherbrains-56-if-you-knew-suomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"WeatherBrains 56: If you knew Suomi…"},"content":{"rendered":"

WeatherBrains Episode 56<\/strong><\/a> is now on the server (February 19, 2007)<\/p>\n

(Want to play WeatherBrains right away? Click the streaming player to the right!)<\/em><\/p>\n

In this week’s Episode:<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> Dangerous weather shaping up for the February 24th weekend for residents in the southern U.S.;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> Meteorologists with The Weather Company discuss the potential hazards from what’s expected<\/x-tab> to be a potent storm system taking shape across the western U.S.;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> “Develop a plan now, and forget the sirens” — James Spann warns residents to think ahead of time <\/x-tab>about what to do and where to go if severe weather strikes;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> “A Weather Radio for every home” — James announces an offer of new alarm-equipped Midland <\/x-tab>Weather Radios for $29.95;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> “Hogwash” — The National Weather Service draws criticism over its decision to change a key part <\/x-tab>of Severe Weather Awareness Week in Alabama;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> A WeatherBrains Extra:\"Dr.<\/p>\n

“The Father of Satellite Meteorology”<\/p>\n

— We look at the contributions to <\/x-tab>meteorology and science by Dr. Verner Suomi, a researcher considered ahead of his time, <\/x-tab>and who came up with an ingenious idea for capturing weather data from satellites while watching <\/x-tab>a football game; Click here to see a photo gallery of Dr. Suomi<\/a>;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> “A sign of the times” — More and more people are turning to the Internet for severe weather <\/x-tab>information;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> An updated website for weather fans: Kevin Selle details upgrades to the WeatherBrains <\/x-tab>website;<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> Jason Simpson tells the story behind why Kevin Selle is also known as “The Hat”…<\/p>\n

–<\/x-tab> This Week in Weather History: Bill Murray looks at the close call Christopher Columbus had with <\/x-tab>bad weather, and how it almost changed world history;<\/p>\n

Websites featured in this Episode:<\/p>\n

Fresh weather information is always available from the ABC 33\/40 Weather Blog<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The University of Wisconsin-Space Science and Engineering Center<\/a> (where Verner Suomi did much of his work);<\/p>\n

The Storm Prediction Center<\/a> constantly monitors severe weather threats in the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Join James Spann, Kevin Selle, Brian Peters, Bill Murray, J.B. Elliott, Jason Simpson and David Black…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WeatherBrains Episode 56 is now on the server (February 19, 2007) (Want to play WeatherBrains right away? Click the streaming player to the right!) In this week’s Episode: – Dangerous weather shaping up for the February 24th weekend for residents in the southern U.S.; – Meteorologists with The Weather Company discuss the potential hazards from […]<\/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-9","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\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}