WeatherBrains 459: Millions in the Bulls Eye

WeatherBrains Episode 459 is now online (November 10, 2014). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE netcast audio program for you!

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Ground Validation Unit. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from The Warsaw University of Technology and PhD in Water Resources Engineering from The University of Iowa. Dr. Piotr Domaszczynski, welcome to WeatherBrains.

Other discussions in this weekly podcast include topics like:

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From The Weather Center:

WeatherBrains 101: A tweet I noted last week prompted me to take a look at the naming of moons by Native Americans. While it was the Name “Full Beaver Moon” that got my attention, it was interesting to find out that some of those names had their origins with weather events.

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Web Sites from Episode 459:

GPM Global Precipitation Measurement

TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Picks of the Week:

Piotr Domaszczynski – Humbled by Forecast Decisions

Bill Murray – Weather Watch S6E3

Brian Peters – NHC’s National Map of Storm Surge Risk

John Scala – Satellite animation of Super Typhoon Nuri

Rick Smith – Great Blue Norther of November 11, 1911

James Spann – Sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Aubrey Urbanowicz – Winter in Less than 4 hours

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.

Category: WeatherBrains