EPISODE · Feb 8, 2019 · 58 MIN
Power line-crushing ice
from Carolina Weather Group · host CarolinaWeatherGroup.com
When Sidney Sperry, of the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, approached Steven Piltz, Meteorologist-In-Charge at the National Weather Service office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a whole new way to judge an ice storm's intensity was born. The Sperry-Piltz Ice Accumulation Index is an algorithm used to predict the damage potential of approaching ice storms.
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When Sidney Sperry, of the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, approached Steven Piltz, Meteorologist-In-Charge at the National Weather Service office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a whole new way to judge an ice storm's intensity was born. The Sperry-Piltz Ice Accumulation Index is an algorithm used to predict the damage potential of approaching ice storms.
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