WeatherBrains 103: A Guest from NC

WeatherBrains Episode 103 is now online (January 14, 2008). This is THE netcast audio program for people who love everything weather.

Terri Bennett is our special guest this week. Terri has worked in the Charlotte, NC, media market for much of the last 17 years but recently found herself without a job when her former station did not renew her contract. Faced with no job but also happy in Charlotte, she has embarked on an effort to present the weather via the Web. Hear about Terri’s efforts as well as her thoughts on global warming and some of the forecast challenges in North Carolina.

Schools and Severe Weather: The recent severe weather event in the Southeast resulted in schools dismissing early once again. James Spann and Brian Peters have some strong opinions on this action, so it is one of the rant topics of the show.

Plus, JB Elliott has more chilling weather facts with much of the northern hemisphere in some bone chilling weather.

And the mailbag has been positively brimming with notes from listeners, so Kevin Selle recaps some of those emails.

From The Weather Center:

• WeatherBrains 101: There’s a lot of ways to describe how we feel, and sometimes the combination of wind and temperature can have a big impact. This week the distinguished professor takes on wind chill.
• This Week In Weather History: As you might imagine, the week of January 15th through 21st would feature something cold, but could it also feature the nearly unthinkable? Mr. Bill Murray takes a look at some of the big cold events that affected this week.

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Web sites from Episode 103:

Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Terri Bennett

Lightning: Going up to down?

Join your host, James Spann, from ABC 3340 in Birmingham along with J. B. Elliott, Kevin Selle, and Brian Peters for this look at the field of weather in the latest episode of WeatherBrains.

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