WeatherBrains

WeatherBrains 331: J. B. Push the Blue Button

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:59:09 -0500

First, Sean Potter is back to test his threshold for pain like last week’s guest. Sean is a Communications Specialist for the NWS in New York City. He is also a contributing editor at Weatherwise Magazine. He has formerly served as a producer at Good Morning America. Our second guest is Gerard McNiff has been a meteorologist for ABC News for 25 years. His main role has been with the Good Morning America program also. He is a graduate of Lyndon State University.

WeatherBrains 330: Threshold For Pain

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:21:54 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Enterprise Solutions Senior Vice President for AccuWeather, Mike Smith.

WeatherBrains 329: WeatherBrains Funky VooDoo

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:04:25 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Keith Stammer, the Emergency Manager for Jasper County, Missouri. He will be discussing the tornado that devastated his community last May 22nd.

WeatherBrains 328: James Misses the Post

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:59:04 -0500

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a senior forecaster at the NWS Forecast Office in Paducah, KY. Chris Noles got his start in weather in 1991 with WeatherData and joined the NWS in 1992.

Our guest panelist for this episode is Brian Shields, morning meteorologist at WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, FL. He graduated from Villanova with a degree in geography and went on to obtain his Broadcast Meteorolgy degree from Mississippi State. He worked in Salisbury, MD, and Charleston, WV.

WeatherBrains 327: Colonel Sanders Unplugged

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:21:55 -0500

Tonight features guest WeatherBrains panelist and WBBJ-TV meteorologist Ryan Hoke and guest WeatherBrain Chuck Doswell, who is a distinguished convective storms researcher. In addition to our special guests, join the usual crowd of J. B. Elliott, Bill Murray, Brian Peters, Kevin Selle and host James Spann.

WeatherBrains 326: Mushy Monkey Brains

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:42:45 -0500

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain found himself staring into the teeth of the Tuscaloosa tornado last April 27th and had the presence of mind to snap what some think is the definitive picture of that beast of a storm. Jimmy Jones is a UPS driver who lives with his family in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He joins us tonight from his home.

WeatherBrains 325: Big Events Then and Now

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:23:32 -0500

This is probably the biggest group of guests we’ve ever had on one WeatherBrains show. Joining us as guest panelists are Mike Wilhelm and John Brown. They are avid weather enthusiasts and took to the Central Plains during the recent high risk day for some fascinating storm chasing. Also joining us will be special guest, Dave Freeman from KSN in Wichita, KS. And rounding out the guest WeatherBrains will be Greg Carbin, WCM at SPC, Jim Stefkovich, MIC of WFO Birmingham, and Alan Gerard, MIC of WFO Jackson, MS. The main topic for discussion with our guest WeatherBrains will be forecasting the April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak.

WeatherBrains 324: Kevin Has Had His Energy Drink

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:55:00 -0500

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Laura Myers, a disaster preparedness research professor at Mississippi State University. She has been conducting extensive response to the April 27th tornadoes and helped with the NWA meeting recently. She is also a graduate of Florida State University.

WeatherBrains 323: They Still Have 3 of My Teeth in That Car

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:04:29 -0500

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Jeremy Rogers. He was working the night of the April 27th, 2011 tornado outbreak at the closest hospital to the tornado in western Jefferson County. He is the Medical Director at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in the Emergency Department and is the current President of the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He earned his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Alabama.

WeatherBrains 322: Seventeen Inches of Yellow Crud

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:35:14 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a legend. He needs no introduction to any person who has read the text of more than a couple of severe weather watches written since 1975. Jack Hales recently retired after 46 years of Federal service including 36 years at the Storm Prediction center, formerly the National Severe Storms Forecast Center. During his 36 consecutive years as a SELS/SPC Lead Forecaster, Jack issued over 5500 tornado and severe thunderstorm watches nationwide since 1975. Jack was the presented the Department of Commerce Silver Medal along with six other meteorologists who collaborated in the forecast of the April 2, 1982, outbreak that successfully used the terms "High Risk" and "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS Watch) for the first time.

Jack was born in Long Beach, CA, and like many current meteorologists became intensely interested in weather during grad school and followed up on his interested with a 46 year career. His first job with the Weather Bureau at the Seattle-Tacoma airport from 1967 to 1969.

Joining us as a guest panelist for this show is Tim Hedrick, Chief Meteorologist at Local 12, WKRC, CBS Cincinnati, OH.

WeatherBrains 321: Weiners and Sauerkraut

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:36:39 -0500

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the NWS in Norman, OKlahoma. Rick Smith is responsible for hazardous weather preparations and has been with the National Weather Service since 1997. Join the rest of the regular WeatherBrains crew for other topics like severe weather issues in Texas and the nation's temperature extremes on this week's edition of WeatherBrains!

WeatherBrains 320: Trouble In Paradise

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:43:53 -0500

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is WAVE-TV meteorologist Kevin Harned. Kevin is a graduate of Purdue University who began his career at WAVE 3 in June of 1998. The WeatherBrains panel discusses the March 2nd tornado outbreak and it's effect on Mr. Harned's Louisville market, severe weather in Hawaii, and numerous other topics. Join the usual crew of Brian Peters, Kevin Selle and your host James Spann on this week's edition of WeatherBrains!

WeatherBrains 319: Booms, Tremors and Shimmies

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:53:42 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain comes to us as a suggestion by listener Sue Watkins. He has been with UPS Airlines for over 21 years and was tasked with starting up the airlines Meteorology Department 18 years ago. Randy Baker represents UPS at industry forums, manages weather support systems, and has led the use of aircraft to deliver automated high-resolution aircraft data to meteorologists on the ground. He is currently working on the evaluation of 25 water vapor sensors on UPS 757 aircraft.

WeatherBrains 318: Couldn’t Drive A Ten Penny Nail Up J.B.’s Rear

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:43:37 -0600

Gary Carter has served as Director for the Office of Hydrologic Development, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), since November, 2000. He is responsible for a group of 80 Government and contract employees engaged in research and development activities to advance the National Weather Service mission to forecast the water in America’s rivers and streams. In November, 2006, Mr. Carter was selected to lead the NOAA Priority Area Task Team on Integrated Water Resource Services. Currently, he is the Water Forecasting Program Manager for NOAA.

WeatherBrains 317: We Don't Need No Organizing

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:55:08 -0600

Our special WeatherBrain tonight is Dr. Russell Schneider, who has spent his entire career in the National Weather Service. He became the first Science and Operations Officer at the HPC. He was selected Director of the Storm Prediction Center in 2010. He has authored and coauthored many publications and was an Associate Editor at the AMS Journal of Weather and Forecasting for more than a decade. In addition, hang out with the regular WeatherBrains crew in this weeks edition!

WeatherBrains 316: Disgusting Discussions

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:21:47 -0600

Welcome to another exciting edition of WeatherBrains. Join the usual gang at WeatherBrains as we welcome several guests on the show this week. If you enjoy the weather, this is THE show for you!

WeatherBrains 315: Organized Noise and Garbage

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:04:41 -0600

Welcome to WeatherBrains! In addition to the usual crew, tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Kory Hartman, the CEO of SevereStudios.com and weekend meteorologist at KSFY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He also serves as KSFY-TV's webmaster. In addition, this episode discusses the loss of storm chaser Andy Gabrielson, who was tragically killed in a car accident.

WeatherBrains 314: Colder than a Well Diggers Bohunkus

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:27:03 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the leading forecaster for the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, Georgia. Having earned his B. S. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his masters degree at the University of Oklahoma, WeatherBrains welcomes Lans Rothfusz to the show where tonight we will discuss integrated warning teams among many other weather topics!

WeatherBrains 313: Rants R Us

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:55:34 -0600

Scott Unger is a forecaster at the NWS in Birmingham. After a stint in the Air Force, he got the weather bug and became an intern at Birmingham. He was promoted to a journeyman forecaster position in 2007 and has assumed responsibility as the focal point for the upcoming dual polarization radar upgrade. The Birmingham WSR-88D is scheduled to have the upgrade completed during February. He joins us tonight to talk about that process, the radar products, and some other interesting topics.s

WeatherBrains 312: Babe Magnet Appears

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:50:19 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is one of the leading severe weather researchers in the world. Dr. Harold Brooks leads the Modeling, Observation, and Analysis Team at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK. Originally from St. Louis, MO, Dr. Brooks has served in a variety of positions primarily in the area of meteorological research since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Atmospheric Sciences in 1990. He has formally and informally be associated with over 100 publications including several books.

WeatherBrains 311: Babbling Texan and Helena Hellraiser

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:38:32 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) at the National Weather Service, Mobile, Alabama. Jeff Garmon grew up in Centre, AL. He is an FSU Seminole - Go Noles! - and 21 year veteran with the NWS.

WeatherBrains 310: Ghost Riders in JB's Eye

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:26:46 -0600

First guest this week is Jaret Rogers. Jaret is a Mesoscale Assistant Forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma. And number two guest WeatherBrain is Joseph Goudsward. Joseph is a Senior Forecaster and Incident Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Little Rock, AR. He is a graduate of Lyndon State College in Vermont.

WeatherBrains 309: Confused JB Dancing Naked

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:01:13 -0600

There's only one way to end the year like we've had in the US. And that's with Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma. Since 1996, Greg has performed as a severe weather outlook forecaster, fire weather forecaster, mesoscale meteorologist and lead forecaster at the SPC.

WeatherBrains 308: Lost in the Yucatan

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:45:26 -0600

It's a double barrel episode with two guest Weather Brains. Kicking things off after the normal chaotic banter of the crew, will be Charlie Woodrum. Charlie is a forecaster at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Pittsburgh, PA. Up next as our second guest is John Ferree. John is the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Services Leader. In this role, John leads efforts to improve severe weather forecasting and warning performance, facilitates promising research into operations, and identifies emerging concepts and techniques to disseminate throughout all NWS operational units. John was the co-chair of the NOAA/NSF sponsored Tornado Symposium in Norman, Oklahoma last week, and also served as program chair for the American Meteorological Society's Warnings and Communications Conference this past summer.

WeatherBrains 307: JB Upchucks

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:29:25 -0600

It's another round table discussion for the WeatherBrains crew discussing topics for some big Weather Ready Nation event that Bill Murray will be attending. So who knows where this episode will lead with all microphones open! And James does get to chip in now that his voice is back!

WeatherBrains 306: Round and Round

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:49 -0600

This episode of WeatherBrains features a roundtable with the regular cast of characters. The plan for the show was suggested by listener Doug Deliefde. He wanted to see a show-long roundtable discussion with the regulars talking about where to turn to and trust for severe weather information in this digital wireless age in which we live. So we have no idea where the spinning table will take us!! I'm sure there will be detours and other side trips! We do have a guest panelist, Michael Moss, a storm chaser in Indiana and a weather enthusiast.

WeatherBrains 305: Kevin Hearts Facebook

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:20:54 -0600

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this episode is Dr. Keith L. Seitter. Dr. Seitter was named Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society in September 2004. He served as Deputy Executive Director of the Society from 1999 to 2004.

WeatherBrains 304: QLCS 1 - Spann 0

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:22:07 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Ron Gird. Ron is a meteorologist with NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). He is responsible for NWS Customer Outreach and Education Programs. He has his B.S. in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University.

WeatherBrains 303: The Fee is a Six Pack and a Can of Viennas

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:35:01 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Mike Eilts, one of four people who founded Weather Decision Technologies in Norman, OK, in April, 1999. The founders of WDT all came from meteorological research organizations in Norman and WDT continues to maintain relationships with these research organizations to extract new technologies from them. Before founding WDT, he was employed with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) for 18 years, the last 7 as Assistant Director.

WeatherBrains 302: Old Coots on Guard

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:21:25 -0600

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this show started out like many of us with a real fascination for weather from early childhood. Chris Parker even began actively forecasting the weather each day starting in 3rd grade at age 8 years old. In high school, he broadcast widely-listened-to forecasts on WBSL, an FM radio station in Western Massachusetts, then studied Meteorology for 2 years at Lyndon State College in Vermont.

WeatherBrains 301: J.B.'s Big Shakers

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:20:25 -0500

Our guest WeatherBrain is Mike Brown, Associate Professor of Meteorology & Climatology at Mississippi State University. Mike is a climatologist/meteorologist with interest in land-surface-atmosphere interactions. Mike has looked at the impact of heterogeneous surfaces upon formation regions of convection in Illinois and Mississippi. Mike has also studied severe local storms in the Mid-Atlantic region in an attempt to identify processes generated at the Earth's surface that augment the mesoscale atmosphere creating an environment of enhanced instability and shear.

WeatherBrains 300: Armed with a Strawberry Shortcake

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:44:03 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is James Ladue, an educator at the Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, OK. He trains meteorologists on how to use radar and satellite data so they may produce more accurate forecasts and warnings. He develops new techniques for combining satellite and radar data. He was one of the really big brains that were in Birmingham last week for the National Weather Association Annual Meeting. He has a life long fascination with weather and sky, and he is doing something about it. His undergraduate work in meteorology was done at SUNY Oswego and his Masters is from the University of Oklahoma. He is also into canoeing, hiking, skiing, storm chasing, and photography.

WeatherBrains 299: Live From The NWA

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:09:00 -0500

This week's WeatherBrains is a special show done live at the 2011 National Weather Association, featuring Bill "Bubba" Bussey of the Rick and Bubba Show, and other meteorologists from around the nation who were gathered at the annual meeting at the Wynfrey in Hoover.

WeatherBrains 298: JB's Buzzing Haboobs

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:22:16 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Mike Goldberg, a free lance broadcast meteorologist based in Richmond, VA. Mike Goldberg is a 20 year veteran of the weather industry. He has his CBM and NWA seals. He is a former chair of the Broadcast Meteorology Committee of the NWA. This will mark the third straight year that he has organized the extremely popular Broadcast Meteorology workshop. It will be held on October 16th at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham.

WeatherBrains 297: Bunch Of Brains

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:32:16 -0500

This week features a special show highlighting the upcoming National Weather Association (NWA) national conference which will be held in Birmingham, AL, beginning on October 15th. So the WeatherBrains gang along with numerous other folks will be discussing the program and providing some insight into the events for this spectacular event.

WeatherBrains 296: Victoria Reveals Her Secret

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:27:54 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Christina Crowe, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Huntsville, Alabama. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri with undergraduate work on convective snowstorms. She came to the University of Alabama in Huntsville to look at hurricane spawned tornado outbreaks.

WeatherBrains 295: Spann Goes Flat

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:22:20 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a life long weather enthusiast. Growing up in East Central Illinois, Nolan Doesken was fascinated with thunderstorms, snow, and freezing rain, but appreciated any and all aspects of weather and climate. He went on to study meteorology and oceanography at the University of Michigan in the early 1970s and then came back to get his Masters degree from the University of Illinois in Atmospheric Science in 1976. He went to work for the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, in 1977 and has been there ever since. He was appointed State Climatologist for Colorado in 2006 and recently served as the president of the American Association of State Climatologists from 2008-2010.

WeatherBrains 294: Google Foo

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:27:18 -0500

This week's Guest WeatherBrain, Jill Hasling, has worked in the field of meteorology since 1974 as a programmer, forecaster, researcher and forensic meteorologist. Since graduating in 1975, she has worked as a marine and tropical meteorologist and provides daily weather forecasts for the offshore oil industry all over the world.

WeatherBrains 293: Dancing Naked in 40 Degree Dew Points

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:20:40 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain i Dr. Jon Nese… who has three degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a Nittany Lion through and through, even co-hosting two radio shows about Penn State Athletics. He was a Storm Analyst at The Weather Channel and the Chief Meteorologist for the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. He is currently in his second teaching stint at Penn State and is a Senior Lecturer there.

WeatherBrains 292: It Looks like a Vienna Sausage

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:22:36 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a WB alum, appearing on show 254 last December. Sean Potter is a free lance science writer and contributing editor at WeatherWise magazine. He is a Hoosier, graduating from Indiana University. He writes the column Retrospect for WeatherWise, which focuses on interesting events in weather history. He is a CBM and a CCM and a member of NCIM. With all those acronyms, it's no surprise that he works for the National Weather Service, where his day job is Communications Specialist.

WeatherBrains 291: Size Doesn't Matter

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:45:15 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a Canadian storm chaser, professional photographer, speaker, and workshop leader. His passion is education. He was recommended by WeatherBrains alum Jaclyn Whittal, who is his chase partner. We welcome Greg Johnson to the show.

And joining us with a last minute invitation from Kevin Selle is our guest panelist Larry Mowry from CBS 11 in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

WeatherBrains 290: Blowing Up Skype

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:41:20 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain created a product that was a pick from a listener last year. Several of us have become big fan boys of it. He grew up in Tulsa and was actively involved in spotting/amateur radio in Tennessee. He worked for Weather Decision Technologies before moving to Denver, where he works for Jeppesen. His product, SimuAWIPS, is a fantastic website that presents weather information in a format that looks like the NWS AWIPS system. Andrew Oldaker is our special guest WeatherBrain.

Levi Cowan is a student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A listener wrote in and tipped us off to Levi's excellent tropical blog and YouTube discussion channel. Thought it might be fun to have Levi come on the show to talk tropics and perhaps he can become our go to guy for tropical discussions. So he agreed to give it a try tonight.

We also have a special guest in John Huntingdon, a Professor of Entertainment Technology at NYC College of Technology, a member of the NYC Stagehand's union (Local 1 IATSE), and a weather geek.

WeatherBrains 289: Trolls and Yoopers

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:28:17 -0500

Our guest WeatherBrain for this edition of the show is Jeff Piotrowski. Jeff is an experienced storm chaser. He is also a Regional Sales Manager at Baron Services. He and his wife Kathryn, also a chaser, live in Tulsa OK.

WeatherBrains 288: We Have a Theme Song!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:21:58 -0500

Long time listener Steve Bauer suggested tonights topic, and as is the long time tradition on WeatherBrains, if you suggest it, you own it. So when he wrote in and said we should do a show on the challenges that people with disabilities face in utilizing weather information, we made him the Guest WeatherBrain. Steve Bauer is totally blind. But that doesn't stop him from being involved in weather.

Our second Guest WeatherBrains for this show is Miles Muzio. Miles is the chief meteorologist at KBAK-TV in Bakersfield.

WeatherBrains 287: It's 110 In My Wife's Car

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:38:06 -0500

This week's WeatherBrain is Eric Sorensen, Chief Meteorologist at WREX-TV in Rockford, IL. Also joining us is AirDat Chief Meteorologist Neil Jacobs.

WeatherBrains 286: Help... McDonalds Is Following Me!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:53:32 -0500

This week's Guest WeatherBrain is Kim Klockow, a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oklahoma. She has her Masters degree in Meteorology and Undergraduate degrees in Meteorology and Economics. Her interest is in the intersection of weather and decision making.

WeatherBrains 285: Full as a Tick and a Black Eye

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:35:23 -0500

Our guest for the show tonight is Dr. Frank Tatom, head of Engineering Analysis, Inc., Huntsville, AL. Dr. Tatom shares a concern about the false alarm rate. From his personal research, he believes there is strong scientific evidence that tornadoes in contact with the ground produce a seismic signal which is detectable at distances of 10 to 20 miles. With a network of seismic sensors spaced roughly 15 miles apart, confirmation of a tornado touchdown could be accomplished when used in conjunction with NWS NEXRAD radar.

WeatherBrains 284: The Kids are Hurricanes

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:34:16 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain, Dr. Chris Landsea, has been a research meteorologist with the Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory at NOAA. Now he is serving in the capacity of the Science and Operations Officer (SOO) at the National Hurricane Center.

WeatherBrains 283: Back Hair and A Catheter

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:44:59 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain needs no introduction to our audience. He is Dr. Greg Forbes of The Weather Channel... a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University. His graduate degrees came from the University of Chicago, where he studied under the legendary Theodore Fujita. He taught at Penn State, became a Fellow of the AMS, and has authored two books on forecasting and disasters. He has been on the team at The Weather Channel where he is known as StormMasterG.

WeatherBrains 282: I Hit the Wrong Button

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:42:20 -0500

This week's guest WeatherBrains, Jeff and Kathryn Piotrowski, were detained by a moderate risk on the Plains today. Last we heard, they were setting up shop near Grand Island, NE.

But, Nate Johnson graciously agreed to stand in. He is an old friend of the show. Nate is a weather producer/meteorologist, WRAL-TV in Raleigh. He is extremely active in societal impacts and social media.

He will be hosting a panel discussion at the 39th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology/The Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication in Oklahoma City later this week.

WeatherBrains 281: In Memory of Miss Molly

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:30:34 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a Weather Specialist for Global Regina in Canada. She grew up in a small town near Windsor, Ontario. She was always interested in weather, but if you had asked her about the Wizard Of Oz, she was more likely to have been singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” than studying the twister.

And, of course, we express our condolences to J.B. Elliott in the loss of his dog, "Little Miss Molly"...

WeatherBrains 280: James' Favorite Heat Tips

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:46:46 -0500

Our guests this week... Grady Dixon, an adjunct professor of meteorology at Mississippi State University. He is a meteorologist / climatologist with research interests in human-environment interactions whereby humans alter their local climate and weather variations affect human health and mortality.

Also joining us is Renny Vandewege, the Director of the On-Campus Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University.

WeatherBrains 279: Looks like a Breast Implant

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Fri, 27 May 2011 22:35:30 -0500

WeatherBrains has a special appearance in this episode with Gary Bandy, Chief Meteorologist, KSN, Joplin, MO. Gary was driving to the station even as the tornado was hitting the town. Hear some of this thoughts on the tornado.

And our guest WeatherBrain is Chris Novy. Chris hails from Illinois, but he is currently the Assistant Chief Engineer with the FOX/CW station in Oklahoma City. He is an active storm spotter and has trained thousands of spotters across the Midwest in spotter safety. His degrees are in law enforcement and he is a amateur radio operator. He runs the WX-CHASE and WX-TALK discussion boards.

WeatherBrains 278: Kevin's Secret Connections

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:42:08 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Brent MacAloney. He has a degree in meteorology from Lyndon State in Vermont. He worked as a contractor for National Weather Service Headquarters on the programming of warnings verification and performance statistics. After 5 years, they liked him so much they hired him! He is now involved with the planning, specifications, and training processes. His area of expertise is still with the verification of NWS warnings and oversees the national process of logging severe and unusual weather events process.

WeatherBrains 277: Bedbugs, Snakes, and Dogs, Oh My!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:38:48 -0500

Tonight's Guest Panelist is Matt Ernst, morning meteorologist for FOX 34 in Lubbock, TX. Tonights Guest WeatherBrain, Dr. Ernst Kiesling, is one of the world’s leading experts on storm shelters. He is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas Tech University and Executive Director of the National Storm Shelter Association.

WeatherBrains 276: Rollin' On The River

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:40:01 -0500

Our guest WeatherBrain for Episode 276 is Richard Okulski, Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the National Weather Service (NWS) in Memphis, TN. Richard is probably THE most scheduled guest on WeatherBrains along with the most postponed! Richard was supposed to have been on the show at least three times before, but weather sometimes has a knack of getting in the way. He will be discussing outdoor weather events along with comments about the record flooding on the Mississippi River.

WeatherBrains 275: Heavy Hearts

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:46:04 -0500

This week we talk about Alabama's unspeakable tornado tragedy of April 27, 2011. A time for the gang to reflect and decompress. A two hour special.

WeatherBrains 274: Attack of the Yeti

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:02:08 -0500

We tried taking you right into the teeth of the storms, but our planned guest is really in the middle of the storms. So we'll go with Plan B! Coming to us from our very own backyard is guest Weather Brain this evening, Jim Stefkovich, Meteorologist in Charge of the National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office for Central Alabama in Calera (Birmingham area). Besides the job of running an NWS Forecast Office, Jim is also the program committee chair for the upcoming National Weather Association (NWA) national conference to be held in Birmingham in October, 2011.

WeatherBrains 273: Pepperoni TVS and Beer Markers

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:11:45 -0500

Our guest WeatherBrains tonight is Nate Johnson from WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC. Our friend Nate was on the air through the entire event on Saturday as several long tracked tornadoes wreaked havoc across the Tar Heel State, including one that moved directly through his city.

WeatherBrains 271: Bocce Ball Paperback

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:55:39 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain joins us from his home in Naples, FL. H. Michael Mogil is a certified consulting meteorologist with B.S. and M.S. degrees in meteorology from Florida State University. His company, How The Weather Works, is dedicated to providing high-quality educational weather services to teachers and students from pre-school through adulthood. He has earned the American Meteorological Society's Television Seal of Approval and is also a Certified Consulting Meteorologist.

WeatherBrains 270: Give the Banana

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:43:49 -0500

Listener Ronald Argo heard tonight's Guest WeatherBrain speak in Atlanta back in November. He thought the Weatherbrains Nation would be interested in hearing how she used weather to help her set a new world record. So tonight we introduce you to Carol Ann Garratt, a true aviation pioneer. She smashed the around-the-world speed record in a light, single-engine plane.

WeatherBrains269: Banned From Oklahoma

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:22:36 -0500

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is Sean Casey. He is the IMAX filmmaker who produced the Tornado Alley film. Sean also built the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2) to film inside a tornado.

WeatherBrains 268: Apple Apps Absolutely

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:20:29 -0500

With a background in software development, you might wonder why we'd invite Michael Wolfinbarger to be our guest WeatherBrain. Well, Michael - or Mike as he prefers - is the founder of RadarScope, an iPhone/iPad app that brings radar data right to your phone. Mike took a job at OU working for the Oklahoma mesonet where he focused on visualization tools. He founded RadarScope which is the 2nd highest grossing weather app for the iPhone and iPad. He enjoys working on GUIs and in computer visualization. He helped to spin off Weather Decision Technologies in Norman, OK

WeatherBrains 267: Pizza in the Cold

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:11:31 -0600

Joining the WeatherBrains gang for this episode is Carolyn Glenn Brewer, author of Caught in the Path: A Tornado's Fury, A Community's Rebirth. Carolyn Glenn Brewer is a writer, historian, teacher and lecturer. Her book has been featured on local and national television and radio programs, and adapted into a one-act play. She will join us from her home in Kansas City.

WeatherBrains 266: Boneheaded Leader

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:50:30 -0600

Our guest Weather Brain tonight is Jeff Rosenfeld. As editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Rosenfeld will be responsible for story ideas, leads, and structuring the overall content of the Bulletin, which will be transformed into a new publication intended to better serve AMS members and the community at large.

WeatherBrains 265: Spann Gets Powdered

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:45:00 -0600

Our Guest WeatherBrain for episode 265 is Dr. John Ogren. Dr. Ogren is Director of the National Weather Service Training Center located in Kansas City, MO. As an integral component of mission support, the NOAA/NWS Training Center provides training to NOAA/NWS employees in the areas of management, meteorology, hydrology, equipment maintenance, systems support, and related activities.

We discuss the proposed NWS budget cutbacks and much more!

WeatherBrains 264: Brian's Nautical Wifi Theft

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:19:23 -0600

Our guest WeatherBrain this week is Kristine Kahanek, who was an icon on Dallas television for 20 years as a meteorologist for channel 8 and channel 11. Last fall, she was featured on the cover of Equanimity, a magazine about life changes...and she has gone through a big one in the past two years.

Brian also joins us from a cruise ship along the coast of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula!

Weatherbrains 263: Brian's All Packed

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:49:51 -0600

As if one round of WeatherBrains was not enough, we welcome Laura Velasquez back to the show tonight as Guest Panelist. She is an On-camera Meteorologist with WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, MI, handling the weekend weather duties for Storm Team 8.

Our guest WeatherBrain comes to us from the Great State of Texas. Frank Brody is the Chief of the National Weather Service Spaceflight Meteorology Group (SMG) at the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, TX.

WeatherBrains 262: Five Great Years

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:02:32 -0600

FIVE YEARS OLD: Hard to imagine, but WeatherBrains is five years old, and this week we celebrate with some clips from past shows. Also joining us are former WeatherBrains host David Black, and Mike Wilhelm, who keeps up our Facebook page.

WeatherBrains 261: Two Bars Of Woodpecker

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:57:27 -0600

Our guest panelist is Nicole Misencik (pronounced Miz-CEN-sick). She is weekend sunrise meteorologist at WTHR - Channel Indianapolis.

Guest WeatherBrain for the show comes from the heart of the Nation's breadbasket. Scott Blair is a general forecaster with the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) in Topeka, Kansas. Prior to arriving in Topeka, he served as a meteorologist with the NWS in Goodland, KS. In 2005, he graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Sciences.

WeatherBrains 260: 40 Grit TP

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:51:11 -0600

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Curtis Carey , the Director of Communications and Executive Affairs for the National Weather Service. He is also an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, D.C., where he teaches Social Marketing.

He is immersed in national issues ranging from energy policy to natural disaster preparedness and response. As a national press officer in Washington, D.C., he has produced over 100 news conferences and placed news stories in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, as well as on national network and cable news shows.

WeatherBrains 259 - Who Did You Sleep With?

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:33:02 -0600

Tonight's guest panelist, Nate Johnson, is a weather producer/meteorologist at WRAL-TV in Raleigh. He is on a return visit and on a mission tonight.

And our special Guest WeatherBrain is a big man in radar. Mike Gibson has a background in computers as a software design engineer with two decades of experience writing PC applications and operating system software. His primary specialty is graphics and font technology, from the API down to the driver level. He is the inventor or co-inventor in three patents related to that work. Mike is the owner of Gibson Ridge Software, an Atlanta-based company. He developed one of the most widely used radar interpretation programs in the world.

WeatherBrains 258: Fish Floaters and Bird Droppings

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:42:52 -0600

Morgan Palmer was one of the WeatherBrains on show 213 nearly one year ago. We talked about Social Media since he has mastered its use in his delivery of the weather. He is the Weekday Meteorologist on NBC2 News (WBBH Fort Myers/Naples, FL). Morgan is our guest panelist this week.

This week's Guest WeatherBrain is back by popular demand. Roger Hill is arguably the most prolific storm chaser in the world. He has appeared on the National Geographic Channel, The Weather Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, The Learning Channel, NOVA, BBC, 60 Minutes, all the major networks, as well as many other shows. He recently authored a book called "Hunting Nature's Fury" which chronicles his life as a storm chaser from his childhood days in Kansas. Throughout tornado season, he leads guided chase tours through his company Silver Lining Tours.

WeatherBrains 257: Last of the Past

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:41:49 -0600

This week's Guest Panelist, Tyler Allison, has had a long and varied career. At one time or another Tyler has been a storm chaser, network engineer, security manager for the largest research super computing facility in the world, computer security consultant, computer forensic investigator, firearms instructor, software developer, ham radio operator, gardener, beekeeper, Jeep owner, backpacker, home remodeler, tinkerer, husband and father.

Coming to us as our Guest WeatherBrain for the last episode of 2010 is Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma. He has been a forecaster at the SPC since 1996.

WeatherBrains 256: Eating A Girl Scout Cookie!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:18:55 -0600

Guest Panelist is Jeff Lyons. Jeff is the Chief Meteorologist at WFIE-TV, the NBC affiliate in Evansville, IN. He joined the news team there in 1988. He is a Hoosier from Indiana University and the proud father of three.

And coming to us from Washington, DC, is our guest WeatherBrains, Jason Samenow Before graduating from high school, tonight's Guest WeatherBrain interned for NBC4 chief meteorologist Bob Ryan.

And we have the pleasure of a special student guest tonight, Laura Radford. Laura is from Athens, AL. She is in the 3rd semester of Masters program in Geography at the University of Alabama.

Join us for some Christmas fun!

WeatherBrains 255: Sit On Your Bottom

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:44:03 -0600

The WeatherBrains guest panelist is Colleen Coyle. She joined the WFAA weather team in Dallas in July, 2010, coming there from KPSP-TV in Palm Springs, CA.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain took her BS in Biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1971 and continued at MSU for her medical degree in 1975. Dr. Mary Ann Cooper completed residency training in Emergency Medicine (1978) at the University of Cincinnati, the first emergency medicine program in the US. During her residency she developed an interest in electrical injuries and progressed to lightning injuries for which she is now considered one of the world's experts in this narrow field.

WeatherBrains 254: What's That Smell?

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:59:50 -0600

The guest WeatherBrain panelist tonight is Dr. Jay Trobec, Chief Meteorologist at KELO-TV Sioux Falls, SD. Dr. Trobec has his undergraduate degree from St. John's University, his Masters from Mississippi State in Geosciences, and his Ph.D. from South Dakota State University in Atmospheric, Environmental and Water Resources. He is a CCM and a CBM, and an AANG (all Around Nice Guy). He is the Chief Meteorologist at KELO-TV in Sioux Falls, SD.

Our guest WeatherBrain is Sean Potter, Communications Specialist National Weather Service/Freelance Science Writer. Sean is a free lance science writer and contributing editor at WeatherWise magazine. He is a Hoosier, graduating from Indiana University. He writes the column Retrospect for WeatherWise, which focuses on interesting events in weather history. He is a CBM and a CCM and a member NCIM. With all those acronyms, it's no surprise that he works for the National Weather Service, where his day job is Communications Specialist. He's married and lives in NYC.

WeatherBrains 235: Is There Anyone Not Mad At James?

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:37:50 -0600

This week's guest WeatherBrains... Dr. Kevin Simmons, a Fulbright Research Scholar and the Corrigan Chair of Economics at Austin College. He has his Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Texas - Arlington, his Masters from Dallas Baptist University and his Ph.D. from Texas Tech.

Dr. Dan Sutter, an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas - Pan American. He is a senior affiliated scholar of the Mercatus Institute.

And, JoBeth Minniear, an Iowa State student.

Topic is false alarms... are they seriously hurting the warning process?

WeatherBrains 252: Weather Cross the Pond

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:43:01 -0600

This week's Guest WeatherBrain is Chris Bell, who works for private company called WeatherQuest and has done some on air work for the BBC as well as some teaching at East Anglia. He did his undergraduate work at LSU followed by a year abroad at the University of East Anglia. He got his Masters at Mississippi State University in operational and broadcast meteorology. Matrimony came soon after the degree and then a move to England 6 years ago.

Joining us as Guest Panelists Josh Johnson from WSFA-TV in Montgomery, AL. Josh Johnson is a graduate of the Broadcast Meteorology program at Mississippi State University.

WeatherBrains 251: Progressive Bean Lunch

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:50:26 -0600

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Lee Bruce of OceanMet. Kevin Selle is back with the gang after a two week hiatus, and brings back the e-mail segment. As always, we have WeatherBrains 101, This Week in Weather History, and Picks of the Week!

WeatherBrains 250: J.B.'s Buffalo Rock Polka

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:43:39 -0600

Our Guest WeatherBrains for this episode, Nick Walker, comes to us from Atlanta, GA, where he works as an on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel. He is the Broadcast Chair of the National Weather Association. A graduate of the University of North Texas, he has 2 CBMs to his name - he is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and he has his certificate in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State.

And joining the group as a guest panelist for this episode is Michael Moss. Michael has been a weather enthusiast his entire life . Having lived in Central Indiana his whole life, he has seen just about all the types of weather.

WeatherBrains 249: J.B. And The Siren Lady

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:54:48 -0500

Our guest WeatherBrains is Dr. Anthony R. Lupo, currently a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Missouri - Columbia, and Chair of the Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science.

Our guest panelist for this episode is Wayne Hart of WEHT, Evansville, IN. Wayne has been the Chief Meteorologist for NEWS 25 since 1993. Wayne earned the title of Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) becoming only the 34th meteorologist in the country and the first in the Tri-State to achieve this distinction.

WeatherBrains 248: Sleepless In WeatherBrains Land

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:07:26 -0500

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this episode is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. His specialties include the dynamics of weather and climate, geoscience education, atmospheric hazards, and satellite remote sensing applications. He has published numerous research papers and just last week won the prestigious Fujita Research Achievement Award at the National Weather Association Annual Meeting in Tucson.

Joining in as our guest panelist for a second time (first time was episode 206) is Brian Neudorf. Brian is the morning meteorologist on WROC-TV in Rochester, NY. Brian began his career in Bismarck, North Dakota, at KFYR-TV in 2001 and then moved to Erie, Pennsylvania ,in 2003, where he fell in love with lake effect snows.

WeatherBrains 247: Lopsided Bullwinkle

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:46:52 -0500

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain has a Bachelors, Masters, and PhD from the University of Hawaii. His 13 page resume includes research, teaching, newspaper, surf and ocean wave forecasting, television weather, lecturing, work at the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch at the NHC and his latest position as the MIC at the NWS San Angelo TX. WeatherBrains is pleased to have Dr. Steve Lyons on the program this week. Dr. Lyons was the Hurricane and Ocean Wave Expert for The Weather Channel from 1998 until earlier this year.

WeatherBrains 246: Vuvuzela On My Thing

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:52:30 -0500

Our guest WeatherBrain this week is Andy Bailey, who has been a meteorologist with the National Weather Service for 17 years and is currently the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) at the NWS office in Kansas City, MO. His activities are aimed at making the office’s forecast and warning programs more effective. Additionally, he is an instructor at the International Association of Assembly Manager’s Academy for Venue Safety and Security where he instructs venue managers on hazardous weather threats specific to large event venues. Andy has twice received his agencies highest award, the Department of Commerce Gold Medal, for Distinguished Achievement in the Federal Service. Prior to this position, he served as WCM at the NWS in Las Vegas, NV, General and Senior Forecaster at the NWS in Rapid City, SD and Intern at the NWS in Des Moines, IA. Prior to joining the National Weather Service Andy was employed with a private meteorological firm in Madison WI, and an ABC affiliate in Iowa.

Our guest panelist is Shane Smith, Morning Meteorologist at WOAY-TV in Oak Hill, WV.

WeatherBrains 245: Traveling To Tucson

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:47:09 -0500

This week the WeatherBrains gang returns to their respective cubby holes wondering if there will ever be another WeatherBrains Live!

Bill Murray is on the road, James Spann is in the television station, JB Elliott is in his home office, Brian Peters is somewhere, and who knows where Dr. Tim or Kevin Selle are?

And Bill Murray is live from the 35th Annual National Weather Association meeting in Tuczon, AZ. Bill has lined up a number of folks for this show including Betsy King, Steve Harned, Steve Zubrick, Nick Walker, John Scala, and John Gordon.

WeatherBrains 244: Ribs For Everybody!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:46:04 -0500

WeatherBrains goes LIVE!!! This is a historic show going live at Huck's Rib Shack in Leeds, AL. Special thanks to the whole Huck's team for hosting us today. The menu is wonderful and the smells are out of this world!

Our guest WeatherBrain for this episode is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the NWS in Glasgow, MT, Tanja Fransen. She has been with the NWS for 15 years. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado and serves on the American Meteorological Society Board of Societal Impacts and is part of the Weather and Society: Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) program. She has been active with the SKYWARN program most of her career and is on the current SKYWARN Modernization Team.

WeatherBrains 243: Dancing With The Clouds

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:18:24 -0500

Our Guest Panelist on this rare morning recording of WeatherBrains is a graduate of the Mississippi State University Broadcast Meteorology Program. She worked in Rapid City, SD and she is currently the morning meteorologist on WTVQ in Lexington, KY.

The WeatherBrain for this episode is Gavin Pretor-Pinney from The Cloud Appreciation Society.

Also we have a special guest, Sandy LaCorte, from the NWS in Huntsville, AL, who will give us the latest on the Rocket City Weather Fest.

WeatherBrains 242: Save The PR-40!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:35:14 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain number 1 is a native of Oklahoma and a graduate of OU meteorology program. He recently completed his Masters in Earth Science. He is the Chief Meteorologist at WHNT in Huntsville, AL and shares his thoughts on nature on his Wild Wild Science Journal Blog. Guest number 2 is Reed Timmer of the show "Storm Chasers" on the Discovery Channel. Reed Timmer is currently working on his PHD in Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. Reed chases supercells, tornadoes, and hurricanes in his free time. Reed has a passion for weather that can only be described as "incredible"!

WeatherBrains 241: Mounds Fail!

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:34:59 -0500

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Bonar Menninger, native of Topeka, KS, but now lives in Mission KS, just outside Kansas City. He is a writer with a degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas. He has done investigative reporting for the Kansas City Business Journal and the Washington D.C. Business Journal. His new book, "And Hell Followed It" is a fascinating account of the tornado that hit Topeka in 1966.

WeatherBrains 240: Heat Wave, Or Is It?

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:53:56 -0500

This week’s guest WeatherBrain is Joe D’Aleo… the first Director of Meteorology at the cable TV Weather Channel. He has over 30 years experience in professional meteorology. Mr. D’Aleo was Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and Senior Editor of “Dr. Dewpoint” for WSI’s popular Intellicast.com web site. He is a former college professor of Meteorology at Lyndon State College. Mr. D’Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Also joining us again is meteorologist Joan Van Ahn… remember by many as the host of the PBS show “AM Weather” back in the 1980s. Joan is now with the NWS HQ in the Washington, DC area.

WeatherBrains 239: The Last Vienna

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:34:24 -0500

This week's WeatherBrain is Karen Trahan Leathem, Ph.D., the lead historian for the Louisiana State Museum exhibition Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond. A native of Kaplan, Louisiana, she earned her B.A. at Louisiana State University and M.A. and Ph.D. in American History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked at the Louisiana State Museum for nine years, researching and writing a broad range of exhibitions on Louisiana history and culture, including Mardi Gras: It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana. Her recent publications include essays in New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories (2009) and Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (2009).

WeatherBrains 238: The Show That Never Ends

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:51:33 -0500

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain loves weather, especially extreme weather. She can be seen weekdays giving the National and International weather on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s network news show NewsWorld. Tonight, we welcome Canada’s favorite meteorologist to the show, Johanna Wagstaffe.

Our second guest is National Weather Service CIO, Craig Hegermann.

Back as a panelist with us for this show is Rob Dale, EMA Planner with Eaton County Emergency Services, and former weathercaster at WLNS.

WeatherBrains 237: Shhhh! Don't Tell Kevin...

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:30:00 -0500

Back on February 14th, Micah Maziar dropped us a line and in it he said: One of my coworkers at Toledo Air Traffic Control Tower in Northwest Ohio is an absolute weather geek. And I mean an extreme weather geek! So with that kind of advance billing, we had to get him on the show as tonight's Guest WeatherBrain!
He is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He attended Purdue University where he received a degree in Aviation Technology. He was hired by the FAA in 2003 and has worked in the tower at Toledo since then. Jeff Hormann is our guest WeatherBrain this week! Joining us as our guest panelist is Dr. John Scala from WGAL-TV in Harrisburg, PA.

WeatherBrains 236: Weather and Flying

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:37:16 -0500

Guest panelist for this episode of WeatherBrains is Brenda Phillips. Brenda Philips is the leader of the End User Integration research at the Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), an NSF Engineering Research Center headquartered at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. CASA is creating innovative weather radar systems. The End User Integration research thrust is a multidisciplinary group that interacts with users of weather data - such as the National Weather Service, emergency managers, academic researchers, the media, and the public - studying social, policy, behavioral and technical interface issues around the use of CASA systems in weather impacted decision making.
Our guest WeatherBrain for this show is Mike Smith. Mike Smith is the Founder and President of Weather Data, Inc., based in Wichita, KS. Weather Data provides weather forecasting, consulting, and weather risk management to companies and organizations around the US, Canada, and Mexico. The company was acquired by Accu Weather in 2006.

WeatherBrains 235: Doctor Negative

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:59:44 -0500

Tonight's Guest Panelist has been in the television weather business since 1994. Patrick Hammer is the morning meteorologist at the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis /St. Paul - KSTP. He was born in San Francisco, worked in Albuquerque, Seattle, and San Francisco but moved to the Twin Cities for the weather extremes there. "Fog at the coast, sunny inland" gets a little old!! according to Patrick.

Bernie Rayno is our guest Weather Brain and an Expert Senior Meteorologist and Afternoon Forecast Manager for AccuWeather, Inc. Bernie was born in Beaver Meadows, PA, a town 45 minutes south-southwest of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. His interest in meteorology was sparked early - he was bitten by the weather bug in kindergarten and soon developed an interest in snowstorms.

WeatherBrains 234: Cantore and Michaels

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:23:10 -0500

This week's Guest WeatherBrain #1 needs to introduction to fans of The Weather Channel. She started her career in broadcast meteorology at WMUR in NH in 1990. She began her career in Boston with WHDH (NBC) back in 1992 working as weekend meteorologist. She worked for The Weather Channel (TWC) as co-host of Atmospheres along with Jim Cantore. She worked for WBZ (CBS) from 2001 to 2009. She has written articles for Weatherwise Magazine.

She has a Master’s degree in Technology in Education from Harvard University. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Cornell University in New York.

Our second guest... Towns cringe when they see him coming cause they know that a hurricane or tornado outbreak or winter storm can't be far behind. Like seeing the crew from 60 Minutes in your office lobby on a Monday morning. But everyone loves him...he is the number one personality on The Weather Channel, Jim Cantore.

WeatherBrains 233: WeatherBrains Platinum Card

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:37:50 -0500

This week's guest is Dr. Pam Heinselman, a research meteorologist at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. She is part of the Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing Group. She is a graduate of St. Louis University. She also got her Masters there and her PhD from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests are warning and forecast applications of weather radars, with an emphasis on phased array radar.
Our guest panelist is Owen Shieh, a graduate of Cornell University. He will be attending the University of Hawaii in the fall, where he will be working on his doctorate in meteorology. He recently had a paper published in BAMS about the local minima of tropical cyclones in the eastern Caribbean.

WeatherBrains 232: Terminal Velocity

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:33:37 -0500

This week's Guest Panelist is author Ken Bass. Ken developed a lifetime love of disaster stories from the moment he read Disaster at Johnstown: The Great Flood as a fourth grader growing up in Columbia, SC. After attending Yale and Georgetown Law School, Ken practiced law for over 20 years before deciding to pursue his passion for writing. And our guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Tim Spangler. Dr. Spangler is the Director of the COMET Program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Under his leadership, COMET has won five national awards. He is a Fellow of the AMS, active in many initiatives for the society. His research interests focus on complex terrain and include investigating complex terrain dispersion, and winter weather modification projects in the western United States.

WeatherBrains 231: Grilling Ginger

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:21:15 -0500

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Bill Proenza, the Regional Director of the National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A meteorology graduate of Florida State University, Proenza began his career at the National Hurricane Center in Miami and as a flight meteorologist on "hurricane hunter" aircraft (1963-1967). During his lengthy career with the National Weather Service, he received numerous performance commendations and awards, including recognition from the NWS Employees Organization as the NWS Manager of the Year for his collaborative leadership (1998).

Our guest panelist is Ginger Zee of WMAQ-TV in Chicago. She was always fascinated with math and science as a child, and went on to study Meteorology at Valparaiso University. Ginger's B.S. in Meteorology (along with minors in Math and Spanish in tow, plus internships and experience in storm chasing), helped her move from WLAV (Grand Rapids, MI) to WEYI (Flint, MI) to WOOD TV (Grand Rapids, MI) and now NBC5 in Chicago. We should also mention that Ginger interned with James Spann at ABC 33/40 in Birmingham while still in college.

WeatherBrains 230: Sausages and Lemmons

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:29:42 -0500

Tonight’s Guest Panelist is the meteorologist for Today in Florida the Saturday edition on WSVN Channel 7 in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Vivian Gonzalez. Back for another round on WeatherBrains tonight is Les Lemon. Les was on episode 209 in January of this year. Les Lemon has had a 42-year carrier with the US Government, a number of private sector corporations, and the University of Oklahoma. He has been doing severe storms and weather radar research since 1968 when he joined, as a student, the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in their radar program.

WeatherBrains 229: Iowa Weather

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:05:32 -0500

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain has been a broadcast meteorologist for 33 years. Terry Swails' forecasts have been seen on KWWL-TV in Waterloo, KDUB-TV in Dubuque, and KWQC-TV in Davenport. He is a published author with two books to his credit including one written with his wife. He has been voted several times the "Best Forecaster" by the Quad City Times, QC Magazine, and the River Cities Reader. In 2006, he was honored with the American Hero Award by the American Red Cross. Our guest panelist was on show 214 15 episodes back. Mark Schnackenberg is the Chief Meteorologist with KWWL in Waterloo, IA - not the Quad Cities...there is a difference. He has a degree in meteorology from Lyndon State College in Vermont and he has been at KWWL since 1995. He is very active in social media.

WeatherBrains 228: State Climatologists

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:56:55 -0500

Our guest panelist is Laura Velasquez handles the weekend weather duties for Storm Team 8 at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, MI. She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Central Michigan University. She majored in meteorology and minored in math and Geographic Information Science. Joining us this week as our guest Weather Brain is Dr. Dennis Todey. Dr. Todey has his Bachelors and PhD in meteorology from Iowa State University and his Masters from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Some of his research has included data gathering from different platforms, understanding the effect of climate on yields in the Midwest, the relationship of Pacific SSTs and climate and agriculture in the Midwest and trends in climate in South Dakota. He is an Associate Professor of Ag & Biosystems Engineering-SDSU and he is the South Dakota State Climatologist.

WeatherBrains 227: Hurricane Season Begins

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:14:24 -0500

Guest weather brains this week include Leslie Chapman-Henderson, who is President and CEO of the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, Inc. FLASH is a non profit corporation founded in 1998 by a collaborative of non-profit private and public organizations dedicated to strengthening homes and safeguarding families from disaster. And, also joining us this week is Dr. Gerry Bell, who works at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, MD. And, also on with us, Mike Hudson of the NWS who discusses their social media policy. The guest panelist is Ilene Jones, developer of the Hurricane app for iPhone and iPad.

WeatherBrains 226: Weather Radio

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:15:00 -0500

Our guest panelist for this episode is the Managing Editor for the Athens News-Courier in Limestone County, Alabama, Kelly Kazek. The special guest for tonight is Bruce Thomas, National Spokesperson/Meteorologist for Midland Radio Corporation. Bruce has nearly 20 years in the television business, and like lots of meteorologists, weather has had a fascination for him from his early childhood years in Mississippi. Bruce has a B. S. degree in meteorology from Metropolitan State College, Denver, and interned with Leon "Stormy" Rottman, one of Colorado's favorite television personalities. Bruce also worked in Texas for stations in Waco and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and Kansas City before going to work for Midland Radio.

WeatherBrains 225: Weather Folklore

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:17 -0500

Our special Weather Brain tonight is a rerun from episode 200, Dick Goddard from Fox 8 in Cleveland, OH. Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, Meteorologist Dick Goddard has been delivering the forecast for over 40 years in Cleveland. And our guest panelist is Michael Wilhelm. Mike is a weather enthusiast and ABC 33/40 Skywatcher who maintains the WeatherBrains Facebook fan page. Mike is an Alabama fan as well as a baseball fan.

WeatherBrains 224: Societal Impact of Weather

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:06:41 -0500

Our guest panelist comes to us from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, FL. Pete Wolf is the SOO, or Science and Operations Officer, for the Jacksonville NWS office. One of Pete's activities is working on a nationwide project to study the effectiveness of weather warnings.

Our special guest for this episode is Dr. John Scala, recent Past President of the National Weather Association and currently a broadcast meteorologist for WGAL-TV in Lancaster, PA. Dr. Scala served as the 2008 President of the National Weather Association (NWA), a professional nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting excellence in operational meteorology. He was elected to a second three-year term as Councilor in 2010 and serves currently on the Committee on Societal Impacts of Weather and Climate as well as the Finance Committee. He received the NWA Member of the Year Award in 2009.

WeatherBrains 223: WKU and All About Satellites

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:09:16 -0500

WeatherBrains Episode 223 is now online (May 4, 2010). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!Guest panelist on WeatherBrains tonight is Dr. Josh Durkee. Dr. Durkee is a Professor of Meteorology at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. Joining us this week as our special guest WeatherBrain is Sheldon Kusselson. Sheldon is a graduate of Penn State University. He is an Accu-Weather alumnus and has spent the last 31 years as a part of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). His branch actually does all hazards analysis besides precipitation.

WeatherBrains 222: Focus On New Orleans

wo4w@me.com (The Weather Company) — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:02:00 -0500

WeatherBrains Episode 222 is now online (Apr. 27, 2010). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!