WeatherBrains 485: Tornado Stories
WeatherBrains Episode 485 is now online (May 11, 2015). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!
Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a National Correspondent for Yahoo and former reporter for Newsweek. She is an Oklahoma native who currently lives in Brooklyn. She has a new book being released tomorrow that is an account from several different perspectives focusing on OKC media, victims and NWS of the May, 2013, tornadoes. Author of The Mercy of the Sky, Holly Bailey, welcome to WeatherBrains!
Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:
Our email bag officer is out tonight, so she’ll have a long mail bag next week.
From The Weather Center:
WeatherBrains 101: Clouds have got to be one of the biggest and most interesting visual element that attracts people to weather. So for this episode of 101 we take a look at an interesting cloud called the pileus cloud.
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Web Sites from Episode 485:
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Mercy of the Sky book (one of many)
Picks of the Week:
Nate Johnson – On-air meteorologists bridge gap
Bill Murray – Gets fog horn!
Brian Peters – Tropical cyclone climatology
John Scala – Hurricane drought due to luck
Kevin Selle – Sam Barricklow photos of Electra, TX, storm
Rick Smith – Video of tornado in Norman, OK, on May 6, 2015
James Spann – Farewell to Birmingham Weather Legend
SkyDavers Blog – The Fog Bank
The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Nate Johnson, Bill Murray, Aubrey Urbanowicz, Dr. John Scala, Rick Smith, Kevin Selle, and Brian Peters. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating netcast about weather.
