Interview: Famous Storm Chaser and Well Respected Broadcast Meteorologist

January 28, 2013

Reed Timmer and James Spann If you’ve watched Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers,” you know Reed Timmer. Self-titled “Extreme Storm Chaser,” he drives a red tank-like creature called “The Dominator,” which he has driven into the core of a tornado in order to collect research data–and because he’s just a little crazy. Part meteorologist, part storm [...]

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Winter Storm Preparation Made Real

January 21, 2013

This week, I endured my third multi-day power outage this year. A tale of three outages The first incident was last February when an ice storm knocked out my power for 4 days during the coldest part of the winter. I snuggled each night under layers of comforters and woke to cold floors and even [...]

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The Latest from Experts Studying Weather

January 14, 2013

Ever wonder where weather all of our scientific knowledge about weather comes from? Wonder where scientists gather to learn from each other and exchange ideas? Or how technology about space and weather gets disseminated? Well, this last week, I found out for myself. I spent from Jan. 5 – 11 in Austin, Texas, attending the [...]

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Three Things You Didn’t Know About Weather Forecasting: An Overview

January 7, 2013

I’m guessing that each day you wake up, you check the weather, right? You wait for your favorite t.v. meteorologist on the morning news or you head to your website of choice for the chances of rain and sun for the day. What you may not know, however, is that all of the weather information [...]

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A New Year, A New Focus: Weather Wise

January 1, 2013

Last year, I began attending graduate school at Virginia Tech in the Science and Technology Studies program. For my Ph.D. work, I decided to focus on the tornado warning process: how warnings are created by meteorologists and how different publics interpret them. Part of my quest to understand more about about severe weather includes learning [...]

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Some of My Favorite Weather Bloggers

September 23, 2012

Each week, as part of my interest in learning all I can about issues at the intersection of severe weather, science and technology, and policy, I visit blogs and websites of people who are experts in these fields. Below are some of my favorite weather bloggers–or bloggers who post about issues related to weather. Please [...]

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