By Becky DePodwin, Joel Housman, Jimmy Marks
The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.
On this year's episode, Becky, Jimmy, and Joel are all joined once again by Dan to talk about the upcoming snow storm due to arrive this week. They also discuss lobster wind, bidets, and toilet paper habits.
Show Notes!
Accuweather - Major winter storm could unload 2 feet of snow or more in places
Capital Weather Gang - D.C. region faces heavy snow, ice and flooding Wednesday from major Mid-Atlantic storm
On this week's show, Jimmy is on a work trip so Becky and Joel are joined by Mihn Phan and Castle Williams from the WeatherHype podcast.
Show Notes!
Weather Hype - http://www.weatherhypepodcast.com/
National Weather Podcast Month - https://weatherpodcastmonth.com
Pew Research Center - For Local News, Americans Embrace Digital but Still Want Strong Community Connection
NOAA Storm Surge Overview - https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/
Impact 360 Alliance - https://impact360alliance.org
Music by dodie - "There's A Storm Coming Tonight"
On this week's episode, Joel, Jimmy, and Becky talk about the bomb cyclone current in progress in the midwest known as Ulmer.
Show Notes!
National Weather Podcast Month #NWPM
80 MPH gust in Amarillo TX blows over a tractor-trailer truck. And another one.
Colorado Springs wind gust up to 97 MPH.
Train Derailment near Logan, NM.
Annotated map explaining the formation of the bomb cyclone.
Dust showing up on GOES-17 blowing up from eastern Texas.
On this week's episode, Becky's husband Dan DePodwin joins us to discuss historical cold snaps like the one we just experienced.
Show Notes!
Devastation of the FL Citrus Crop in 1894/1895
https://medium.com/florida-history/the-great-freezes-1894-95-and-the-collapse-of-the-florida-orange-industry-7442e5d75337
December 29 1984 (18 Orlando; 24 West Palm)
1899 Cold Snap
http://appalachianmagazine.com/2017/01/17/the-coldest-day-in-american-history/
Official Monthly Weather Review from the Weather Bureau https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/Monthly-Weather-Review-February-1899.pdf
1936 Cold and Heat
February 1936 - Coldest Feb on record, narrowingly beating 1899.
The average temperature in Devils Lake for a five-week period ending Feb. 21, 1936 was -21. McIntosh, S.D., hit -58, Jordan, Mont. -60 and Sceptre, Sask., -63.
The Minot Daily News reported on Feb. 17, 1936, that “the cold spell that has brought sub-zero weather for 46 days will hold sway” for a few more days. According to the NWS Minot averaged 32 degrees below normal throughout February 1936. Relief came in the form of temperatures ranging from -10 to -20, or 50 to 60 degrees less than what the Minot area has been experiencing this winter.
121 degree record experienced in ND on July 6 (Steele, ND). - http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2016/02/1936-coldest-winter-ever/
Followed by one of the most extreme summers on record.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
https://blog.genealogybank.com/were-having-a-heat-wave-your-ancestors-miserable-summer-of-1936.html
1985 Cold Wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_1985_cold_wave
Coldest morning (-18) in Pittsburgh since 1899.
1986 Challenger Disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
On this week's show we discuss tornados throughout the year in 2018. Ian Livingston and Katie Wheatley join Becky, Jimmy, and Joel to review the overall muted tornado season.
Show Notes!Tri-state Tornado
2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes in the United States
Rare December tornado rips into homes in Seattle area
The biggest tornado events of 2018
An overview of the modern tornado record, 1950 through present (maps)
Ian & Katie's website: USTornadoes.com
Storm Prediction Center
Ian's Twitter: @islivingston
Katie's Twitter: @mapgirl18
Its the beginning of Season Two! On this week's show we discuss last winter vs this winter snow total predictions as well as talk about another El Nino, the "polar vortex", the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).
Show Notes! Winter 2018 - 2019
Last winter's prediction results.
The North Atlantic Oscillation
Global Patterns: Arctic & North Atlantic Oscillations
FiveThirtyEight Forecasts The National Dog Show
This year's snow predictions:
Current Arctic Oscillation Status
Current North Atlantic Oscillation Status
This week on the show the gang talks about the recent Nor'easters and what causes them.
Show Notes!
Show predictions before Winter:
Actual measured snowfall:
Jimmy guessed the amount closest to actual, so he wins.
Wikipedia: Nor'easter
Why Are There Suddenly So Many Nor'Easters?
Accuweather: What is a Nor'easter?
Dakota Smith, aka @weatherdak's The Four Nor'easters of March GIF.
This week's music if the Revival March by John Phillips Sousa.
March is National Weather Podcast month! There are a lot of other great weather podcasts participating in this program that we want you to check out as well. Please go to weatherpodcastmonth.com to check them out.
On this week's show, Becky, Jimmy, and Joel talk about the upcoming cold weather pattern that is going to affect most of the US for the next couple weeks, how we did for snowfall predictions from last winter, and our predictions for the upcoming winter.
Show Notes!
Winter Weather Predicitons:
November La Nina Update
Ryan Maue's GFS GIF
NOAA's Winter Outlook
Snow Predictions:
Joel: 25" for Dulles
Becky: 43" for State College
Jimmy: 8" for Richmond Airport
On this week's episode, Becky, Jimmy and Joel cover Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath as well as Hurricane Irma, the impact the storm has had so far and what is expected to come.
Show Notes!Becky's Irma Twitter List
Beck's Facebook Stormblog
Hurricane Harvey LANDFALLThe forgotten but freakish damage from Hurricane Harvey’s eyewall in Rockport, Tex.
Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history
Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water
The Houston Flooding Pushed the Earth's Crust Down 2 Centimeters
http://www.ustornadoes.com/2017/08/30/hurricane-harveys-tornado-action/
Global Giving Harvey Relief
Forecasts for Harvey were excellent but show where predictions can improve
Incredible meteorological imagery from Hurricane Harvey
2017/08/24 - Harvey restrengthens into a Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico - Geocolor - HTML5 Loop
2017/08/25 - 30-second imagery showing powerful Hurricane Harvey approach the Texas Coast - Band 2 Visible - HTML5 Loop
2017/08/28 - Band 13 IR Summary of Harvey from 8/25 to 8/28 - tremendous amounts of rain in southeast Texas - HTML5 Loop
2017/08/31 - Brown flood waters streaming from Galveston Bay into the Gulf - Geocolor - HTML5 Loop
NHC Irma Track
Category 5 Irma stays on perilous path toward Florida; hurricane watch issued
Hot Water Ahead for Hurricane Irma
Irma vs Andrew - https://twitter.com/JoelNihlean/status/905845846687789058/photo/1
How to prepare for Hurricane Irma
The Storm Reaches Puerto Rico: ‘There Is Nothing Like This
GOES-16 vs GOES-13
A GOES-16 Look at the Ferocious Hurricane Irma
NASA SPoRT Twitter Account
Post Image
Image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Astronaut Randy Bresnik took this photo of Tropical Storm Harvey from the International Space Station on Aug. 28 at 1:27 p.m. CDT.
Music
Outro music is "Muddy Water" by The Seldom Scene.
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On this week's episode, our dynamic trio cover a number of topics including NASA's Juno probe flyby of Jupiter, recent flash flooding, weather twitter, a rogue ice berg, and the upcoming solar eclipse.
Music: This week's outro music was "I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet" by Carol King.
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Show Notes! LARSON ICE SHELF BREAK OFF
One of the biggest icebergs in recorded history just broke loose from Antarctica
FLASH FLOODING IN ARIZONAArizona flash flood sweeps away family relaxing in swimming hole, killing 9
JUNO'S GREAT RED SPOT PICTURESJuno’s Great Red Spot pics are amazing! Here are some fun facts about Jupiter’s giant storm.
UPCOMING TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE ON AUGUST 21ST, 2017Map of totality path.
The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.