WeatherBrains 547:

WeatherBrains Episode 547 is now online (July 11, 2016). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is the Director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Dr. Kevin Kloesel. He is also the Associate Dean for Public Service & Outreach in the College of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. He is also an Associate Professor at OU.

Dr. Kloesel is Associate Dean for Public Service and Outreach in the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. He is directly responsible for outreach programs and tours for the over 30,000 people that visit the National Weather Center facility in Norman annually. In addition, he is an Associate Professor in the OU School of Meteorology with teaching and research interests ranging from synoptic meteorology to societal impacts and decision making in weather-impacted situations. He led the team that won the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University and the Ford Foundation for their work with the emergency management community in Oklahoma.

Currently, he works directly with thousands of K-12 students and teachers, as well as hundreds of emergency management agencies, in finding appropriate applications for weather data in local education and decision making. He was also a content designer for Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm children’s museum exhibit that is currently touring the US. He works closely with the Norman Chamber of Commerce and Norman Economic Development Coalition to provide continuing education opportunities to the growing private weather enterprise in Norman. Previously, he was Director of Outreach for the largest state climate office in the country, the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, and served as director of the Florida Climate Center in Tallahassee, FL. While a tenured faculty member at Florida State University, he served as a research fellow with the Cooperative Institute for Tropical Meteorology, and co-directed an outreach project, EXPLORES!, which provided NOAA satellite data ingest capabilities to over 200 schools throughout Florida.

Dr. Kloesel has appeared on WeatherBrains twice before on episodes 397 and 455.

Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:

• Extremes: 110 at Borger, TX, Carlsbad, NM, Guymon, OK, Imperial, CA, & Phoenix, AZ and 28 at Boca Reservoir, CA
• Tropical Atlantic is quiet
• Celia and Five-E swirling in the Eastern North Pacific
• Severe weather occurring next three days from Iowa to Michigan
• Snow at higher elevations in Idaho
• Potential for horrible heat
• Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice
• and more!

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From The Weather Center:

WeatherBrains 101: It’s a word that has actually been used 11 times in previous 101 segments, but it has never had its own segment. So tonight the professor brings to live the term tropopause and what it means in the scheme of things.

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Web Sites from Episode 547:

Emergency Preparedness of OU

Presentation on HazSimp

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Picks of the Week:

Nate Johnson – NWS Twitter account

Kevin Kloesel – Book about the Chicago Heat Wave of 1995

Brian Peters – gets fog horn!

Kevin Selle – Anchor discussion of weather on Facebook Live

Rick Smith – YouTube video by Brad Panovich

James Spann – Dry/dusty air over Atlantic

Aubrey Urbanowicz – Mark Reynolds’ blog on tornado versus straight line wind event

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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