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Jason Samenow from Capital Weather Gang joins us on WeatherBrains episode 351. Jason will weigh in on the debacle concerning the National Weather Service and the Department of Commerce and the National Weather Association annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain needs little introduction to our audience. He was Chief Meteorologist and Hurricane Specialist for WFOR-TV, the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Miami, FL. He also served as the chief hurricane analyst for CBS News in New York. He is now a hurricane specialist for The Weather Channel. Bryan Norcross, welcome to WeatherBrains! Also joining us for tonight’s episode is Bob Ryan. Bob Ryan is lead meteorologist on the 11 PM News on ABC7/WJLA-TV and heads digital weather development at ABC7/WJLA-TV. He has served the Washington area as a broadcast meteorologist for more than 30 years. Ryan began his career in the atmospheric sciences as an associate researcher in the Physics Section with Arthur D. Little Inc. in Cambridge, MA, where he conducted research in cloud physics. He holds a BS degree in Physics and M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University at Albany.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a suggestion by Deputy Guest Booking Officer and friend of the podcast, Todd Foisy, a WeatherBrains alum who was on just a few weeks ago. Bruce Tremper is the Director of the Utah Avalanche Center. Bruce has worked as an avalanche professional for the past twenty years. He lives in Utah and was be involved in avalanche control for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Tonight's guest WeatherBrains are in charge of the Tornado Town Hall project in Norman. Kim Klockow, a WB alum is OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. Dr. Randy Peppler is from the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies. Rick Smith, another WB alum, is the WCM at the NWS Norman.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a Canadian adventurer, television presenter, storm chaser, and explorer, currently best known for his television series Angry Planet. He specializes in documenting extreme weather and worldwide natural disasters.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a friend of the podcast, Todd Foisy. He is a WeatherBrains Alum, having appeared as the Guest Panelist on show 204 on December 21, 2009. He is the SOO from the National Weather Service in Caribou, Maine. He joins us from his home in northern Maine.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrains are Jim and Daphne LaDue. Both are educators and weather researchers. Jim is an educator at the Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, Oklahoma. His better half Daphne helps the NOAA NWS Warning Decision Training Branch integrate adult learning principles into their educational materials for NWS forecasters. Also joining us on this episode is Chester Lampkin from KSDK-TV in St. Louis.

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is Dr. John Christy. Dr. Christy is the Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he began studying global climate issues in 1987.

Join us for this week's edition of WeatherBrains as we have special guest Meredith Garafolo from WWSB in Sarasota, Florida joining the panel as well as John Toohey Morales; chief meteorologist at NBC 6 in Miami.

Tiffany Sunday is an entrepreneur, emerging tech educator, strategist and speaker. Her passion for weather started when she was young listening to her grandparents tell stories about Texas tornadoes. She is a member of the National Weather Association’s Social Media Committee and one of the instructors for the 2012 NWA Social Media Boot Camp. Also joining us is Guest WeatherBrain Bryan Shaw from WIVB in Buffalo.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Patrick Marsh, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude) from the University of Arkansas in 2005 and a Masters of Science in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2007. In addition to working on his doctorate, Patrick serves as the National Severe Storms Laboratory Liaison to the Hazardous Weather Testbed where his research interests lie in working with operational forecasters, data mining, data visualization, and all things high-impact weather.

Tonight’s GuestWeatherBrain is affectionately known as the “Godfather of Pacific Northwest Weather.” Dr. Cliff Mass is a professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington. We spoke with him Sunday afternoon from one of the most beautiful places in the U.S., Seattle, WA. Guest Panelist for the evening is Matt Ernst from Fox 34, Lubbock, TX.

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is Brad Panovich; Chief Meteorologist at WCNC-TV in Charlotte, NC. Brad grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Ohio State University. Also, guest WeatherBrain Matt Meister is joining us this week, who is the chief meteorologist at KROD-TV in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Matt graduated from the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Tonight's guest WeatherBrains are a special couple from Huntsville. Chris and Elise Schultz both do weather research at UAH and have done a lot of work with the ARMOR radar. Elise also has a huge interest in lightning, which really got going when her childhood home was unfortunately struck by lightning.

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is Gray Stream. Gray is the Board Chairman of the National Hurricane Museum and Science Center. Gray joins us in Lake Charles with Jimmy and Keith Trahan, who are survivors of Hurricane Audrey. Jimmy and Keith are stars in the documentary about Hurricane Audrey. Our guest panelist this week is Brian Neudorff. Brian is the chief meteorologist at KMVT in Southern Idaho. A graduate of Purdue University, Brian also has earned his Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology and is certified by the American Meteorological Association.

If you tell tonight's Guest WeatherBrain not to have a COW, he would tell you he already has. He is an Iowa State Cyclone. He received his Meteorology degree from there in 2001. He has since been working for the Department of Meteorology. One of his main roles has been collecting environment data that supports agricultural activities in the Hawkeye State. He also has done several formal and informal projects with the National Weather Service. Daryl Herzmann, welcome to WeatherBrains!

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain #1 is the Emerging Dissemination Technologies Program Lead for the NOAA’s NWS. He joined the NWS in 1992. Mike Gerber is leading efforts to bring about the integration of NWS alert information across the widest possible range of warning systems and consumer electronic devices to better save lives, protect property, and enhance the national economy. Joining us as Guest WeatherBrain #2 is Wade Witmer, Deputy Director of FEMA IPAWS (Integrated Public Alert and Warning System). His division runs the alerts aggregator that feeds WEA. He’s also had extensive discussions with the wireless carriers and the FCC.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is one of the leading severe weather researchers in the world. He works at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. He is also a recent alum of the show, having appeared on show #312 on 1/16. He joins us tonight from his office in Norman, Oklahoma. Harold Brooks, welcome to WeatherBrains!

First, Sean Potter is back to test his threshold for pain like last week’s guest. Sean is a Communications Specialist for the NWS in New York City. He is also a contributing editor at Weatherwise Magazine. He has formerly served as a producer at Good Morning America. Our second guest is Gerard McNiff has been a meteorologist for ABC News for 25 years. His main role has been with the Good Morning America program also. He is a graduate of Lyndon State University.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Enterprise Solutions Senior Vice President for AccuWeather, Mike Smith.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Keith Stammer, the Emergency Manager for Jasper County, Missouri. He will be discussing the tornado that devastated his community last May 22nd.

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain is a senior forecaster at the NWS Forecast Office in Paducah, KY. Chris Noles got his start in weather in 1991 with WeatherData and joined the NWS in 1992. Our guest panelist for this episode is Brian Shields, morning meteorologist at WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, FL. He graduated from Villanova with a degree in geography and went on to obtain his Broadcast Meteorolgy degree from Mississippi State. He worked in Salisbury, MD, and Charleston, WV.

Tonight features guest WeatherBrains panelist and WBBJ-TV meteorologist Ryan Hoke and guest WeatherBrain Chuck Doswell, who is a distinguished convective storms researcher. In addition to our special guests, join the usual crowd of J. B. Elliott, Bill Murray, Brian Peters, Kevin Selle and host James Spann.

Tonight’s Guest WeatherBrain found himself staring into the teeth of the Tuscaloosa tornado last April 27th and had the presence of mind to snap what some think is the definitive picture of that beast of a storm. Jimmy Jones is a UPS driver who lives with his family in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He joins us tonight from his home.

This is probably the biggest group of guests we’ve ever had on one WeatherBrains show. Joining us as guest panelists are Mike Wilhelm and John Brown. They are avid weather enthusiasts and took to the Central Plains during the recent high risk day for some fascinating storm chasing. Also joining us will be special guest, Dave Freeman from KSN in Wichita, KS. And rounding out the guest WeatherBrains will be Greg Carbin, WCM at SPC, Jim Stefkovich, MIC of WFO Birmingham, and Alan Gerard, MIC of WFO Jackson, MS. The main topic for discussion with our guest WeatherBrains will be forecasting the April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak.

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Laura Myers, a disaster preparedness research professor at Mississippi State University. She has been conducting extensive response to the April 27th tornadoes and helped with the NWA meeting recently. She is also a graduate of Florida State University.

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Dr. Jeremy Rogers. He was working the night of the April 27th, 2011 tornado outbreak at the closest hospital to the tornado in western Jefferson County. He is the Medical Director at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in the Emergency Department and is the current President of the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He earned his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Alabama.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a legend. He needs no introduction to any person who has read the text of more than a couple of severe weather watches written since 1975. Jack Hales recently retired after 46 years of Federal service including 36 years at the Storm Prediction center, formerly the National Severe Storms Forecast Center. During his 36 consecutive years as a SELS/SPC Lead Forecaster, Jack issued over 5500 tornado and severe thunderstorm watches nationwide since 1975. Jack was the presented the Department of Commerce Silver Medal along with six other meteorologists who collaborated in the forecast of the April 2, 1982, outbreak that successfully used the terms "High Risk" and "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS Watch) for the first time. Jack was born in Long Beach, CA, and like many current meteorologists became intensely interested in weather during grad school and followed up on his interested with a 46 year career. His first job with the Weather Bureau at the Seattle-Tacoma airport from 1967 to 1969. Joining us as a guest panelist for this show is Tim Hedrick, Chief Meteorologist at Local 12, WKRC, CBS Cincinnati, OH.

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the NWS in Norman, OKlahoma. Rick Smith is responsible for hazardous weather preparations and has been with the National Weather Service since 1997. Join the rest of the regular WeatherBrains crew for other topics like severe weather issues in Texas and the nation's temperature extremes on this week's edition of WeatherBrains!

Tonight's guest WeatherBrain is WAVE-TV meteorologist Kevin Harned. Kevin is a graduate of Purdue University who began his career at WAVE 3 in June of 1998. The WeatherBrains panel discusses the March 2nd tornado outbreak and it's effect on Mr. Harned's Louisville market, severe weather in Hawaii, and numerous other topics. Join the usual crew of Brian Peters, Kevin Selle and your host James Spann on this week's edition of WeatherBrains!

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain comes to us as a suggestion by listener Sue Watkins. He has been with UPS Airlines for over 21 years and was tasked with starting up the airlines Meteorology Department 18 years ago. Randy Baker represents UPS at industry forums, manages weather support systems, and has led the use of aircraft to deliver automated high-resolution aircraft data to meteorologists on the ground. He is currently working on the evaluation of 25 water vapor sensors on UPS 757 aircraft.

Gary Carter has served as Director for the Office of Hydrologic Development, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), since November, 2000. He is responsible for a group of 80 Government and contract employees engaged in research and development activities to advance the National Weather Service mission to forecast the water in America’s rivers and streams. In November, 2006, Mr. Carter was selected to lead the NOAA Priority Area Task Team on Integrated Water Resource Services. Currently, he is the Water Forecasting Program Manager for NOAA.

Our special WeatherBrain tonight is Dr. Russell Schneider, who has spent his entire career in the National Weather Service. He became the first Science and Operations Officer at the HPC. He was selected Director of the Storm Prediction Center in 2010. He has authored and coauthored many publications and was an Associate Editor at the AMS Journal of Weather and Forecasting for more than a decade. In addition, hang out with the regular WeatherBrains crew in this weeks edition!

Welcome to another exciting edition of WeatherBrains. Join the usual gang at WeatherBrains as we welcome several guests on the show this week. If you enjoy the weather, this is THE show for you!

Welcome to WeatherBrains! In addition to the usual crew, tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Kory Hartman, the CEO of SevereStudios.com and weekend meteorologist at KSFY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He also serves as KSFY-TV's webmaster. In addition, this episode discusses the loss of storm chaser Andy Gabrielson, who was tragically killed in a car accident.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the leading forecaster for the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, Georgia. Having earned his B. S. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his masters degree at the University of Oklahoma, WeatherBrains welcomes Lans Rothfusz to the show where tonight we will discuss integrated warning teams among many other weather topics!

Scott Unger is a forecaster at the NWS in Birmingham. After a stint in the Air Force, he got the weather bug and became an intern at Birmingham. He was promoted to a journeyman forecaster position in 2007 and has assumed responsibility as the focal point for the upcoming dual polarization radar upgrade. The Birmingham WSR-88D is scheduled to have the upgrade completed during February. He joins us tonight to talk about that process, the radar products, and some other interesting topics.s

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is one of the leading severe weather researchers in the world. Dr. Harold Brooks leads the Modeling, Observation, and Analysis Team at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK. Originally from St. Louis, MO, Dr. Brooks has served in a variety of positions primarily in the area of meteorological research since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Atmospheric Sciences in 1990. He has formally and informally be associated with over 100 publications including several books.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) at the National Weather Service, Mobile, Alabama. Jeff Garmon grew up in Centre, AL. He is an FSU Seminole - Go Noles! - and 21 year veteran with the NWS.

First guest this week is Jaret Rogers. Jaret is a Mesoscale Assistant Forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma. And number two guest WeatherBrain is Joseph Goudsward. Joseph is a Senior Forecaster and Incident Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Little Rock, AR. He is a graduate of Lyndon State College in Vermont.

There's only one way to end the year like we've had in the US. And that's with Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma. Since 1996, Greg has performed as a severe weather outlook forecaster, fire weather forecaster, mesoscale meteorologist and lead forecaster at the SPC.

It's a double barrel episode with two guest Weather Brains. Kicking things off after the normal chaotic banter of the crew, will be Charlie Woodrum. Charlie is a forecaster at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Pittsburgh, PA. Up next as our second guest is John Ferree. John is the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Services Leader. In this role, John leads efforts to improve severe weather forecasting and warning performance, facilitates promising research into operations, and identifies emerging concepts and techniques to disseminate throughout all NWS operational units. John was the co-chair of the NOAA/NSF sponsored Tornado Symposium in Norman, Oklahoma last week, and also served as program chair for the American Meteorological Society's Warnings and Communications Conference this past summer.

It's another round table discussion for the WeatherBrains crew discussing topics for some big Weather Ready Nation event that Bill Murray will be attending. So who knows where this episode will lead with all microphones open! And James does get to chip in now that his voice is back!

This episode of WeatherBrains features a roundtable with the regular cast of characters. The plan for the show was suggested by listener Doug Deliefde. He wanted to see a show-long roundtable discussion with the regulars talking about where to turn to and trust for severe weather information in this digital wireless age in which we live. So we have no idea where the spinning table will take us!! I'm sure there will be detours and other side trips! We do have a guest panelist, Michael Moss, a storm chaser in Indiana and a weather enthusiast.

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this episode is Dr. Keith L. Seitter. Dr. Seitter was named Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society in September 2004. He served as Deputy Executive Director of the Society from 1999 to 2004.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Ron Gird. Ron is a meteorologist with NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). He is responsible for NWS Customer Outreach and Education Programs. He has his B.S. in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is Mike Eilts, one of four people who founded Weather Decision Technologies in Norman, OK, in April, 1999. The founders of WDT all came from meteorological research organizations in Norman and WDT continues to maintain relationships with these research organizations to extract new technologies from them. Before founding WDT, he was employed with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) for 18 years, the last 7 as Assistant Director.

Our Guest WeatherBrain for this show started out like many of us with a real fascination for weather from early childhood. Chris Parker even began actively forecasting the weather each day starting in 3rd grade at age 8 years old. In high school, he broadcast widely-listened-to forecasts on WBSL, an FM radio station in Western Massachusetts, then studied Meteorology for 2 years at Lyndon State College in Vermont.

Our guest WeatherBrain is Mike Brown, Associate Professor of Meteorology & Climatology at Mississippi State University. Mike is a climatologist/meteorologist with interest in land-surface-atmosphere interactions. Mike has looked at the impact of heterogeneous surfaces upon formation regions of convection in Illinois and Mississippi. Mike has also studied severe local storms in the Mid-Atlantic region in an attempt to identify processes generated at the Earth's surface that augment the mesoscale atmosphere creating an environment of enhanced instability and shear.

Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is James Ladue, an educator at the Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, OK. He trains meteorologists on how to use radar and satellite data so they may produce more accurate forecasts and warnings. He develops new techniques for combining satellite and radar data. He was one of the really big brains that were in Birmingham last week for the National Weather Association Annual Meeting. He has a life long fascination with weather and sky, and he is doing something about it. His undergraduate work in meteorology was done at SUNY Oswego and his Masters is from the University of Oklahoma. He is also into canoeing, hiking, skiing, storm chasing, and photography.