WeatherBrains

Our show tonight comes on the 30th anniversary of the historic Blizzard of 1993.  Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain wrote and directed the new movie "Supercell", which will be released March 17th, 2023 in theaters, in digital and on-demand.  He completed his MFA and BA from USC School of Film in 2011.  He was one of the youngest to ever to direct, edit, and produce an NBC primetime drama show called "Siberia".  In 2015, he created Swipemarket, a creative agency focused on bringing entertainment to Silicon Valley.  He has directed and produced over 200 campaigns for brands including HP enterprise and Intel.  Herbert James Winterstern, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Founder and CEO of Climavision, based out of Louisville Kentucky since mid-2021.  He was previously an Aviation Weather Specialist in the USAF, and served in the Washington State and Massachusetts Air National Guard.  He also worked for WSI for over 15 years.  He also served as CEO of Enterprise Electronics Corporation. Chris Goode, welcome!  Our Guest Panelist tonight is a suggestion of friend of the podcast Johnny Parker.  He's the Chief Meteorologist at KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas.  Hunter Williams, thanks for coming on the show tonight.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is an expert on the Global Lightning Mapper.  He's a NOAA Physical Scientist who splits time between offices at the University of Maryland and Kent State University.  He's a graduate of Ohio State University in 2004 as well as Florida State University in 2007 and 2011.  Dr. Scott Rudlosky, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's first Guest WeatherBrain is a meteorologist, oceanographer, and science educator turned historian of science.  She authored "Weather by the Numbers:  The Genesis of Modern Meteorology".  She currently works for the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen.  Dr. Kristine Harper, welcome!  Our second Guest WeatherBrain is a mesoscale/outlook forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK.  She's been at the National Weather Service since 2002, and started her career as a student volunteer at the NWS in Norman.  She's also the first woman to ever issue a convective watch at the SPC.  Elizabeth Leitman, welcome!  Our Guest Panelist this week is is a meteorologist from Texas with a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  He is an advocate for the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature and is working with legislators in Texas to educate and implement policy changes across the state for heat safety.  In addition, he is a GitHub code developer who has made a a self install script for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) which has had over 2500 downloads across 80 countries.  Will Hathaway, welcome!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a suggestion of friend of the podcast Jeremy Bower.  He's the Public Outreach Manager in the Community Engagement section of the American Meteorological Society.  We will be focusing our discussion tonight on the AMS Weather Band.  Gideon Alegado, welcome to the show.

Our show tonight focuses on forecasting and defining snow squalls and what qualifies as a snow squall, why the public should pay attention, and the difficulty of the science of forecasting winter weather events.  Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in State College, Pennsylvania.  He previously joined us back on show 877.  John Banghoff, great to see you again!  Our second Guest WeatherBrain is also a 30-year veteran meteorologist at NWS State College PA.  He's the Lead Forecaster at NWS State College, and is passionate about winter storms and winter weather forecasting.  Greg DeVoir, welcome!  Our third Guest WeatherBrain is the Science and Operations Officer at the NWS in State College PA.  Michael Jurewicz, welcome!

Tonight's episode focuses on how and why Waymo is essentially employing their fleet of autonomously driven vehicles as mobile weather stations and what it enables. By combining Waymo’s autonomous driving sensor suite — complete with cameras, radar, and lidar —with high-quality ground-truth data from weather visibility sensors, Waymo’s engineers created a new quantitative metric about meteorological visibility that allows the Waymo Driver to generate estimates about the current weather and environmental states it's operating under.

Tonight's show focuses on the tornado outbreak on January 12th, 2023 in Central Alabama.  Our first Guest WeatherBrain is the Chief Meteorologist at WSFA-TV in Montgomery.  Josh Johnson, thanks for coming on the show.  Also joining us is WSFA-TV Meteorologist Amanda Curran.  Amanda, thanks for joining us.  We also appreciate the crew from the NWS Birmingham coming on the show tonight. Kevin Laws (Science and Operations Officer at NWS BHM) and Warning Coordination Meteorologist John De Block, welcome back!  Also stopping by to chat from NWS Birmingham is meteorologist Jason Davis.  We appreciate you sharing your insight and expertise with us on tonight's show.

Tonight's show focuses on the Penn State Campus Weather Service, which is the oldest and largest student-run forecast organization in the country.  Founded in 1972, it has over 100 active members and provides weather forecasts for 11 regions in Pennsylvania.

Tonight we come to you live from the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado with a number of special guests dropping in!  Along with our regulars, you'll hear from special guests including Dr. David John Gagne, Kathryn Prociv, Dr. Tracey Fanara, Dr. Timothy Gallaudet and many more!