WeatherBrains 555: Playing with Nick’s Dongle

WeatherBrains Episode 555 is now online (September 6, 2016). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this episode is Nick Walker of the Weather Channel. His hometown is Fort Worth, TX. He has a B.A. in Communications from the University of North Texas and a Certificate in Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University.

When he’s not on the air talking weather, he enjoys educating young people about weather through school and community appearances. He is the author of “Sing Along with the Weather Dude,” a book and musical recording for children. As a singer and songwriter, he has produced several recordings of original music, including “Don’t Get Scared, Just Get Prepared,” a CD of severe weather preparedness songs for young people.

Nick also likes to write, and he has had articles and stories appear in local and national publications, including several “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books. Other interests include reading, traveling, and hiking.

Nick actually stumbled into weather when he was a news reporter in Seattle. One of the meteorologists left suddenly and his boss threw him on the air after a 4-day crash course. But he quickly became hooked and never looked back and it’s what he’se wanted to do ever since.

Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:

• Extremes: 106 at Death Valley, CA, and 20 at Bodie State Park, CA
• Hermine has become a post tropical storm
• Hermine still causing problems for New England coastline
• Hurricane Newton in Eastern Pacific heading into Baja California
• Some risk of severe weather Upper Midwest
• Not cooler in Southeast US but drier air
• Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice
• and more!

Our email bag officer is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners.

From The Weather Center:

WeatherBrains 101: It’s all around us all the time but we can’t see it but we can feel it. That’s air and while we can’t see it, it does exert a force on us. This week we begin a three-part series about air pressure.

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Web Sites from Episode 555:

The Weather Channel

Weather Dude web site

Article on Sinclair Broadcast Group interest in Weather Channel

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Picks of the Week:

Bill Murray – Meteorology Lab with Tim Vasquez

Brian Peters – Radar catches birds before earthquake

Kevin Selle – Hurricane Vortex Data Message Decoder

James Spann – TV alert goes awry

Aubrey Urbanowicz – Historical Hurricane Tracks

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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