WeatherBrains 546: Flooding Events in WV

WeatherBrains Episode 546 is now online (July 5, 2016). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!

Tonight’s first Guest WeatherBrain is a show alum, having appeared on show number 223 on May 4, 2010. He is a retired operational satellite meteorologist who worked for 36 years for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) located in Maryland. Working as a meteorologist and specializing in the satellite analysis of precipitation, he interacted daily and around the clock with NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS) weather and river forecasters, who are tasked with issuing flood, flash flood ,and winter weather advisories, watches, and warnings to support NOAA’s mission of protecting lives and property. Sheldon Kusselson, welcome back to WeatherBrains!

Guest WeatherBrain number 2 is a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Charleston, WV. His undergraduate degree and Masters is from Millersville University. He started working for the NWS in late winter of 2015. He loves weather photography as well. Mike Charnick, welcome to the show!

And rounding out the trifecta for the show tonight is the Chief Meteorologist at WOWK in Charleston, WV. Spencer Adkins, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Joining us tonight is our guest WeatherBrain, Morgan Palmer.

Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:

• Extremes:
• Atlantic tropical basin quiet
• Blas and another disturbance in Eastern Pacific
• Super Typhoon Nepartak in Western Pacific heading for Taiwan
• More numerous thunderstorms in Southeast US
• Kevin describes the weather there as “icky”
• Cool in the Northwest but warm now
• Some troughiness across Eastern US
• Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice
• and more!

Our email bag officer is back and handles the incoming messages from our listeners.

From The Weather Center:

WeatherBrains 101: This edition of 101 is a brief discussion of trough and ridges. Interesting that the weather pattern which is normally unchanging for much of the summer has, so far, been changing pretty regularly.

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Web Sites from Episode 546:

WOWK-TV weather site

Morgan Palmer at KIRO-TV

The Weather Social

NWS Charleston, WV web page

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Picks of the Week:

Spencer Adkins – Picks Bama & Nick Saban and Mountain Mission

Nate Johnson – Science behind the awesome thunderstorm photo

Sheldon Kusselson – Satellite pick

Bill Murray – Gets fog horn!

Morgan Palmer – How much water falls during a storm?

Brian Peters – Striking thunderstorm photograph

Kevin Selle – High quality graphics for GFLevelX and WeatherStudio

James Spann – NWS Guam Facebook page

Aubrey Urbanowicz – “And Soon I heard the Roaring Wind”

The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Nate Johnson, Bill Murray, Aubrey Urbanowicz, Rick Smith, Kevin Selle, and Brian Peters. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating netcast about weather.

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