Carolina Weather Group

Audio excerpts from our live storm coverage on Saturday night. As isolated severe thunderstorms moved through North Carolina and South Carolina, Carolina Weather Group panelists Scotty Panel and Chris Jackson talk with James Brierton about the storms they have observed. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Roger Edwards lead forecaster at the NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Centerwill be our guest as we talk about threats of land falling tropical systems that create dangerous surface winds. Tornadoes are always a concern, and we will dive into how to better predict them and detect them when they develop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

The panelists of the Carolinas Weather Group spend the evening taking your questions and sharing what's on their minds! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

What is The Sirens Project? And why are they flying drones into storms? In a "can't miss episode," we talk with the guys who are using cutting-edge, unmanned technology to push the limits of storm chasing. They're researching severe weather from a vantage point not seen before.  Their goal: To gather difficult data with hopes of improving forecasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Join us as we discuss the Hurricane Season 2018 with Dr. Philip Klotzbach, who is one of the leading scientists of Atmospheric Sciences and Tropical Meteorology. Phil Klotzbach is 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. Klotzbach has been employed in the Department of Atmospheric Science for the past seventeen years and was co-author on the Atlantic basin hurricane forecasts with Dr. William Gray through 2005. 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 has published over two dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Climate and Weather and Forecasting. Klotzbach graduated from Bridgewater State College with a BS degree in Geography in 1999. He then attended Colorado State University where he received his Masters degr

While earthquakes aren't weather related, it is a phenomena that many in the weather community have to deal with. We will talk about earthquakes, the difference between west coast/east coast earthquakes, and how we should be prepared for the possibility of an earthquake affecting you and your family. About our guest: Ken Hudnut is the Science Advisor for Risk Reduction for the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). He ensures that USGS hazards science is being applied to help solve societally relevant problems. To help understand the San Andreas Fault system and the behavior of faults in general, he has studied earthquakes worldwide using satellite & airborne imagery along with field work to provide ground truth. In 2017, he received the Ivan I. Mueller Award for distinguished service and leadership from the American Geophysical Union. In 2018 he will receive the Meritorious Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior. He has served as a geophysicist studying earthquakes for the USGS office in Pasaden

Tonight we introduce you to Alan Sealls, the chief meteorologist at WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama, and the president of the National Weather Association. He has three decades of experience in TV. Alan not only holds bachelors and masters degrees in meteorology from Cornell and Florida State, but he also has professional certifications from the AMS (American Meteorological Society) and the NWA (National Weather Association). Tonight we will open up the weather round table and talk about tropical weather, social media, NWA, broadcasting, and much more!  This is "can't miss" conversation!   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

The Carolina Weather Group recaps the historic and devastating flooding seen across the western North Carolina mountains and foothills this week. We look at the atmospheric conditions caused by Subtropical Storm Alberto that lead to the Lake Tahoma Dam evacuation, Interstate 40 closure caused by a mudslide and more. Panelist Scotty Powell joins the show from the McDowell County Emergency Management Center. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

A podcast recap featuring highlights from our live coverage Tuesday of historic flooding in parts of the North Carolina mountains and foothills. Scotty Powell reports from McDowell County, where a Flash Flood Emergency was declared. Numerous landslides, water rescues and flooding incidents were reported across the region. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Dr. Eric Bruning is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Geosciences, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. He will be joining us to talk the physics of lightning. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Meteorologist Cheryl Nelson is a natural disaster preparedness expert. Cheryl helps save lives by teaching the public how to prepare for hurricanes, wild fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, extreme winter weather and heat waves.Cheryl is a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador and will help us get ready for storm season.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Our tonight, Dana Griffin from the National Weather Service in Huntsville, Alabama, talkes about the global lightning mapper tool flying aboard the GOES-16 weather satellite. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

On April 15th, 2018, a strong EF 2 tornado hit Greensboro and portions of Guliford County. Chief Meteorologist Tim Buckley and Meteorologist Terran Kirksey were broadcasting live on WFMY-TV when the tornado narrowly passed the studio. Tim and Terran will be our guests to talk about all the chaos as they were on TV alerting the viewers, all the while directing the staff to take shelter. This will be a show you do not want to miss!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Andrew Loconto from National Weather Service Blacksburg, VA will be joining us to discuss the new Enhanced Hazardous Weather Outlook. This new product is in testing phase and will be introduced to Weather Service Offices in the next several months.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

William Churchill is the satellite focal point at the National Weather Service in Memphis. On this episode of Carolina Weather Group, we go in-depth with how GOES-16 is being used operations since becoming GOES-East last December. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

John Jensenius is NOAA's specialist on lightning safety and serves as a national spokesperson for the organization on issues related to lightning and lightning safety. He has developed a considerable amount of educational material on lightning, as well as tracking and documenting lightning fatalities nationwide. On this show, we will be discussing lightning and the latest statistics for 2018, last year's stats and what past years have shown for its dangers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

This week, our panel talks with Tim Buckley, chief meteorologist at WFMY in Greensboro, NC, about what was a memorable 2017-2018 winter season for the Carolinas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Years 2016 and 2017 were known for large droughts and major wildfires. Meteorologist Todd Lindley is the Science and Operations Officer for the US National Weather Service Norman Oklahoma. Todd joins us to discuss how the National Weather Service forecasts for wildfires and how they provide vital information to Emergency Management and local fire departments. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

This week's episode of the Carolina Weather Group is a double feature. First we catch-up with Tyler Jankoski and Dakota Smith of "The Weather Junkies" podcast. Tyler and Dakota talk about their show, digital weather media and National Weather Podcast Awareness Month. Then we speak with Chris Jackson, an meteorologist student and South Carolina mainstay for online weather coverage. This week, Chris chased devastating tornadoes through South Carolina. We'll talk to him about his chase and how he treats the weather across the Southeast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message

Jonathan Erdman is a veteran of The Weather Channel and weather.com. We're talking to him about his career covering weather on television and online: How they cover storms, how their content is produced and which weather events have shaped his life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carolinaweather/message