WeatherBrains

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is NOAA's Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and the Director of the National Weather Service.  In that role, he's responsible for all the day to day civilian weather operations for the United States territories and adjacent waters.  Dr. Louis Uccellini, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Our Guest Panelist is Jamie Morrow, who is the Executive Officer at the National Weather Headquarters.  Jamie, welcome back!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a friend of the podcast.  He's appeared on show 437 back in 2014 and show 339 in July 2012.  He's the Chief of the Statistical Modeling Branch at the Meteorological Development Laboratory.  He's also a former President of the NWA.  Jeff Craven, welcome back!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Lead Forecaster in the Operations Branch at the Storm Prediction Center.  He appeared on show 410 in December 2013.  Roger Edwards, welcome back to the show!  Tonight's second Guest WeatherBrain retired as a Chief of the SPC's Science Support Branch in July 2018 after an amazing 46 year career.   Also joining us as Guest Panelist is the new morning meteorologist joining Aubrey at WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, VA.  John Stevens, welcome to the show!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Chief Meteorologist for WGN-TV in Chicago.  He earned his degree in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Tom Skilling, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrains are the two co-chairs for the overall planning committee for the AMS annual meeting, which begins on January 10th.  Our very own Nate Johnson joins Tanja Fransen this week.  She's the MIC at the NWS in Glasgow, Montana.  Tanja, welcome!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Greg Carbin with our annual year-ender.  Greg is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

Tonight's first Guest WeatherBrain is originally from Detroit, Michigan.  He received his Bachelor's Degree in Earth System Science Engineering at the University of Michigan.  He received his Master's in Meteorology from Penn State in 2017.  He is now working on his Doctorate and his areas of research include convective storms and cloud microphysics.  Scott Loeffler, welcome to WeatherBrains!   Our second Guest WeatherBrain is Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, where he specializes in severe storms research.  He is recipient of NWA's Fujita Award and AMS's Editor's Award.  He served as Chief Editor of the AMS Journal of Weather and Forecasting.  He is the Associate Department Head at Penn State and oversees the Master's and PhD programs in Meteorology and Atmospheric Science.  Paul Markowski, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Marketing Manager for Reach Cyber Charter School in Harrisburg, PA.  He's also adjunct instructor in meteorology at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He also is a part time broadcast meteorologist for WNEP-TV in Scranton, PA.  Scott Stuccio, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a friend of the show, having appeared on shows 331, 292, and 254. Those shows were named "JB push the blue button", "It looks like a Vienna Sausage" and "What's that smell", tree of the more notoriously named shows. He pens the monthly weather history column Retrospective in Weatherwise magazine and has recently penned a book for AMS books about Cleveland Abbe. Sean Potter, welcome back to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a civil servant and a meteorological instructor for NOAA's National Weather Service.  Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead, welcome to WeatherBrains! Tonight's Guest Panelist is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the NWS in northern Indiana.  Michael Lewis, welcome to the show!