Carolina Weather Group

A podcast recap featuring highlights from our live coverage Tuesday of historic flooding in parts of the North Carolina mountains and foothills. Scotty Powell reports from McDowell County, where a Flash Flood Emergency was declared. Numerous landslides, water rescues and flooding incidents were reported across the region.

Dr. Eric Bruning is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Geosciences, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. He will be joining us to talk the physics of lightning.

Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson is a natural disaster preparedness expert. Cheryl helps save lives by teaching the public how to prepare for hurricanes, wild fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, extreme winter weather and heat waves.Cheryl is a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador and will help us get ready for storm season. 

Our tonight, Dana Griffin from the National Weather Service in Huntsville, Alabama, talkes about the global lightning mapper tool flying aboard the GOES-16 weather satellite.

On April 15th, 2018, a strong EF 2 tornado hit Greensboro and portions of Guliford County. Chief Meteorologist Tim Buckley and Meteorologist Terran Kirksey were broadcasting live on WFMY-TV when the tornado narrowly passed the studio. Tim and Terran will be our guests to talk about all the chaos as they were on TV alerting the viewers, all the while directing the staff to take shelter. This will be a show you do not want to miss! 

Andrew Loconto from National Weather Service Blacksburg, VA will be joining us to discuss the new Enhanced Hazardous Weather Outlook. This new product is in testing phase and will be introduced to Weather Service Offices in the next several months. 

William Churchill is the satellite focal point at the National Weather Service in Memphis. On this episode of Carolina Weather Group, we go in-depth with how GOES-16 is being used operations since becoming GOES-East last December.

John Jensenius is NOAA's specialist on lightning safety and serves as a national spokesperson for the organization on issues related to lightning and lightning safety. He has developed a considerable amount of educational material on lightning, as well as tracking and documenting lightning fatalities nationwide. On this show, we will be discussing lightning and the latest statistics for 2018, last year's stats and what past years have shown for its dangers.

This week, our panel talks with Tim Buckley, chief meteorologist at WFMY in Greensboro, NC, about what was a memorable 2017-2018 winter season for the Carolinas.

Years 2016 and 2017 were known for large droughts and major wildfires. Meteorologist Todd Lindley is the Science and Operations Officer for the US National Weather Service Norman Oklahoma. Todd joins us to discuss how the National Weather Service forecasts for wildfires and how they provide vital information to Emergency Management and local fire departments.