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Joining us for tonight's episode is Jim Williams, Hurricane City.  Coming in as our Guest Panelist is Mark Jelinek.

Joining us for this episode is the infamous Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel. Also joining us is Kim Cunningham. Kim and Jim worked together at The Weather Channel.

Joining us tonight as the Guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Chuck Doswell. Dr. Doswell last appeared on WeatherBrains Episode 507 and this appearance makes the fifth time he has been on WeatherBrains. By the way, his real name is Charles A. Doswell, III.  Joining us as Guest Panelist is Ricky Matthews from the Carolina Weather Group Podcast. Also joining us are Gary Szatkowski and Gina Eosco.

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this show is Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a Research Scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from CSU in 2007. Dr. Klotzbach has been employed in the Department of Atmospheric Science for the past fourteen years where he has been co-author on the Atlantic basin hurricane forecasts with Dr. William Gray. He became first author on the seasonal hurricane forecasts in 2006. Klotzbach developed the two-week forecasts currently being issued during the peak months of the hurricane season between August-October. He developed the Landfalling Hurricane Probability Webpage (available online at http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane) in partnership with the GeoGraphics Laboratory at Bridgewater State College. This webpage provides hurricane landfall probabilities for the entire United States coastline from Brownsville, TX, to Eastport, ME, as well as the Caribbean. He has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Climate, Weather and Forecasting, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Joining us tonight as Guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Russ Schneider, Director of the Storm Prediction Center, and our guest panelist, Jen Watson.  Dr. Russell Schneider was named Director of the NOAA-NWS Storm Prediction Center in August, 2010, and led the Center through the historic 2011 tornado season. The Storm Prediction Center is responsible for protection of life and property through official 24x7 nationwide forecasts and warnings for hazardous mesoscale weather phenomena including tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and wildfires. Russ began his NWS career in 1992.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a retired Air Force meteorologist with over 17 years in weather support to military operations. He is currently the Program Manager and Senior Meteorologist at MetLoop in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.  Tom Crenshaw, welcome to WeatherBrains!  Tonight’s Guest Panelist is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Alabama. She is the Director of the Center for Advanced Public Safety. She needs to introduction to WeatherBrains listeners. She is Dr. Laura Myers. Dr. Laura, welcome back to the show. 

Tonight we take on the topic of the upcoming 2017 National Weather Association (NWA) annual meeting which will be held in Garden Grove, CA, from September 16-21, 2017. You can find all the important details at http://nwas.org/annual-meeting-events/annual-meeting/. Joining us from the NWA are Todd Lericos (NWS Las Vegas), Miles Muzio (Bakersfield), and Janice Bunting (NWA Executive Director). Theme of the NWA conference this year is "Putting Science into Service." March 9th is the deadline for abstracts to be presented at the conference.

Joining us as the Guest WeatherBrain for this show is W. H. Maya from the Smithsonian.

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this episode is author Wayne Neely. Mr. Neely attended the Caribbean Meteorological Institute in Barbados, where he majored and specialized in weather forecasting. He is an international speaker, best-selling author, educator, and meteorologist at the Department of Meteorology in Nassau, Bahamas, where he has worked for more than twenty-six years. He has written ten books on hurricanes and regularly speaks at schools, colleges, and universities about the history and impact of hurricanes.

Joining us for this episode is the newly retired former Meteorologist-in-Charge of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Birmingham, AL, Jim Stefkovich.