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WeatherBrains 829: Getting Old is Rough

This week's guest WeatherBrain attended the University of Wisconsin where he earned his phD.  He has spent over 50 years in the field of meteorology and 43 years as a public servant.  Tonight, we celebrate the career of this legend of the weather community.  Dr. Louis Uccellini, welcome to the show…

NWS Chief Backs Forecasters who Contradicted Trump

Updated Sept. 9, 2019, 12:55p.m. The head of the National Weather Service issued a strong public defense Monday of forecasters who contradicted President Donald Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian posed a threat to Alabama as it approached the United States. Director Louis Uccellini said forecaster…

Commerce Secretary Threatened to Fire Weather Forecasters, NYT Reports

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top weather experts for contradicting President Donald Trump's faulty forecast of Hurricane Dorian striking Alabama, The New York Times reported Monday. While a very early forecast map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show…

Special Episode: Bosart–Uccellini Presidents' Day Storm conversation (MWR 150)

As part of our celebration of 150 years of Monthly Weather Review, we are sharing a wonderful conversation between Lance Bosart, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and Louis Uccellini, recently retired director …

Developing a Weather-Ready Nation with Louis Uccellini

On this episode, we welcome Louis Uccellini, former Director of the National Weather Service and Academy Fellow, to discuss the impact of forecast accuracy, the effectiveness of Impact Based Decision Services, and how to make the US more weather-ready.Support the Podcast Today at:donate@napawash.or…

Tom Skilling leads a panel to discuss what federal staff cuts at NOAA will mean

Lisa Dent is joined by Tom Skilling, WGN-TV chief meteorologist emeritus, Ed Fenelon, former meteorologist-in-charge of National Weather Service – Chicago, Dr. Louis Uccellini, former director of the US National Weather Service, and Max Armstrong, former WGN Radio agri-business broadcaster, as a pa…

Tom Skilling leads a panel to discuss how federal staff cuts at NOAA are affecting regions with extreme weather

Lisa Dent is joined by Tom Skilling, WGN-TV chief meteorologist emeritus, Ed Fenelon, former meteorologist-in-charge of National Weather Service – Chicago, Dr. Louis Uccellini, former director of the US National Weather Service, and climate researcher for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign…

WeatherBrains 1049: Say A Little WeatherBrains Prayer

Tonight's show is all about radar and reflectivity. Guest WeatherBrain Charles Kuster works in the radar division of NSSL. He started his career at the OU Cooperative Institute. Then, moved to NSSL and has been there ever since. He attended the University of Oklahoma, where he completed his Bachelo…

The New England Hurricane of 1938 — The Long Island Express | Weather With Enthusiasm

THE NEW ENGLAND HURRICANE OF 1938 — THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWeather With Enthusiasm | Episode 7On September 21, 1938, a Category 3 hurricane moving at nearly 50 miles per hour slammed into Long Island and tore through New England — leaving at least 682 people dead and destroying tens of thousands of…

Italy Changed the Weather Forecast

Before satellites, radar, and computer models, Italian scientists were helping transform how humanity observed, measured, and predicted the weather. In this special Italian-American Heritage Month episode of Meteorology Matters, we trace centuries of scientific breakthroughs, from Galileo’s early t…