WeatherBrains

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz, on-air broadcast meteorologist at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, PA.  In addition, also joining us from WCAU-TV is on-air broadcast meteorologist Steven Sosna.  Gentleman, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Also joining us is the Chief scientist/SOO at the National Weather Service in Birmingham, AL.  Kevin Laws, welcome to the show!  Last but not least, Joel Housman is joining us this week to celebrate National Weather Podcast Month.  Hailing from Washington DC, he runs Ice Station Housman and is a weather enthusiast.  Welcome to the show, Joel!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Chief Meteorologist at Fox News.  Rick Reichmuth, welcome to the show!  Also joining us as Guest WeatherBrain No. 2. is the Chief Meteorologist at FOX29 in San Antonio and is the President and CEO of the National Tropical Weather Conference.  Alex Garcia, welcome to the WeatherBrains!  Last but not least, the Vice President for Operations of the National Tropical Weather Conference joins us on the show.  In addition, he's the Chief Meteorologist at KRGV in Weslaco, TX.   Tim Smith, welcome!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a Professor in the Department of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science At Penn State University.  She is also the Director at Penn State's Institute for CyberScience.  Her research areas are on hurricanes, climate change, and using advanced computer models and statistics.  She is the current President of the AMS.  Dr. Jenni Evans, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain was recently on WeatherBrains back on December 13th.  She was born and raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio.  Her undergraduate degree is from Ohio State University.  While working on her Master's Degree at the University of Arizona, she started employment as a Forecaster with the NWS Honolulu.  Tina Stall, welcome back!  Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain No. 2. did her undergraduate work at UC-Davis and her graduate work in Hawaii.  She is the MIC at the National Weather Service in Monterey CA.  Cindy Palmer, welcome to the show!  Our third Guest WeatherBrain is the Chief Meteorologist for ABC News and needs no introduction.  Ginger Zee, welcome!

First joining us tonight is Leslie Chapman-Henderson, CEO of FLASH (Federal Alliance for Safe Homes), to congratulate our very own James Spann on winning the 2019 National Weather Person of the Year award.   Leslie, thanks for joining us! Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a retired National Weather Service WCM for Little Rock, Arkansas.  After many years of service, he retired in 2015.  John Robinson, welcome to the show! Also joining us as Guest Panelist is is the Field Meteorologist and Executive Weather Producer for KOCO 5 First Alert Weather.  Mike Armstrong, welcome!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the teaching professor in meteorology and the associate head of the undergraduate program in meteorology at The Penn State University. He is also the host, feature writer, and producer of Weather World, Penn State Meteorology Department's weekday weather magazine show. He also produces a segment on Wednesday's called WeatherWhys (WxYz).  In addition, he was an on-air storm analyst at The Weather Channel from 2002 to 2005 (just after Dr. John Scala was there) and was the chief meteorologist at the historic Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia from 1998 to 2002. He has also co-authored two books: "The Philadelphia Area Weather Book" and "A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology."  Dr. Jon Nese, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the President of the National Weather Association.  Paul Schlatter, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Also joining us as Guest Panelist is Greg Fishel, Chief Meteorologist at WRAL-TV.  Issues such as simplifying a public weather forecast and the challenging conditions for Federal employees as they continue to work without pay due to the government shutdown.  

Tonight's show won't feature any guests, so the panel has extra time to RANT!  Tonight's discussion focuses on the current 2019 ongoing government shutdown.

Tonight's show focuses on amateur radio and how it relates to meteorology.  Joining us are 3 top-notch amateur radio operators tonight.   First up is Jay Farlow (W9LW), who has been a ham since the early 1970s.  He's also been a volunteer EMT and firefighter and member of a disaster medical assistance team.  Also joining us is Rob Macedo (KD1CY).  Rob has served as the ARES SKYWARN Coordinator for NWS Boston/Norton (formerly Taunton) since 1996 and has been an avid SKYWARN Spotter since he got his Ham license in 1988.  Last but not least, Jeff Stapel of SKYWARN (W8SWX) joins this week's show from Michigan and shares his valuable insight.  Tonight's Guest Panelist is Scott Martin from The Weather Factory.

Tonight's First Guest WeatherBrain has a special place in the pantheon of the show.  He does the intro for Tony Rice's weekly segment.  To borrow a line that Kevin Selle used when he introduced Leo Laporte several years ago: "he has a voice like a basket of warm kittens."  He is the Chief Meteorologist for KIRO-TV in Seattle.  Morgan Palmer, thanks for joining us! Tonight's next Guest WeatherBrain is a teaching Adjunct Professor at The University of British Columbia.  He is an expert on Pacific Northwest windstorms.  Dr. Wolf Read, welcome to WeatherBrains. Tonight's Final Guest WeatherBrain is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.  He is an expert on the weather in the pacific northwest.  He also wrote a book, "The Weather of the Pacific Northwest".  Cliff Mass, welcome! Joining us as Guest Panelist is a meteorologist for Portland General Electric.  He forecasts for the utility and energy traders.   Charlie Phillips, welcome to WeatherBrains!