Latest Flooding Podcast Episodes
High Elevation Weather Stations
Weather Geeks - April 24, 2024 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Baker Perry, National Geographic Explorer When it comes to the highest places on Earth, the Rockies, the Andes and of course, the Himalayas come to mind. And while hikers have scaled these peaks, real-time weather data is scarce at these high altitudes. These are not highly...
Weather & Fashion
Weather Geeks - April 17, 2024 07:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Nicole Mölders, Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks If you grew up in a colder climate, your parents always told you that you have to dress in layers, all the way down to your socks! But if you grew up in a warmer climate, you were told to wear lighter fabrics and co...
How AI is Helping Weather Models Make the Grade
Weather Geeks - April 10, 2024 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Stephan Rasp, Senior Research Scientist at Google As technology continues to improve, weather models are becoming increasingly more accurate in the short term due to increased computing power and increased resolution. But how can we quantify that increase in accuracy? It see...
A Deeper Dive Into Our Closest Star
Weather Geeks - April 03, 2024 07:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. C. Alex Young, NASA Heliophysicist You may have noticed there’s been plenty of conversation concerning the closest star to us over the past year or so. From the total solar eclipse in April to the increase in solar storms as we approach the solar maximum, the sun has been ge...
Bioresources
Planet Possible - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutesWe're exploring the topic of bioresources - sometimes called sewage sludge - and our interview is with Georgia Elliot-Smith, who's heading up 'Fighting Dirty' - a campaign to ensure environmental regulation around sewage sludge - last updated in 1989 in England and Wales - remains effective. Nik...
Caribbean Flash Droughts
Weather Geeks - March 27, 2024 07:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Craig Ramseyer, Assistant Prof. at Virginia Tech When a drought is depicted on TV or in movies, you’ll usually see parched farmland with wilted crops and a distressed farmer in denim overalls looking over them. What about the drought that resides in the column of air above our h...
The Berardelli Bonus
Weather Geeks - March 20, 2024 07:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Jeff Berardelli, WFLA-TV Chief Meteorologist As you go about your daily life, you may check your local news station for the weather for the day and for the rest of the week. How about a little sprinkling of the weather for the rest of the year? Or the rest of the decade? Our gue...
Climate & Environmental Law
Weather Geeks - March 13, 2024 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Madison Condon As much as you’d want to stop drinking out of plastic straws or hop on public transportation, there is only so much that one person can do to help save our environment and curb the effects of climate change. A lot of the responsibility comes down to our political ...
Natural Disaster Economics
Weather Geeks - March 06, 2024 14:54 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Kevin Simmons Episode Intro: In our current tornado and severe thunderstorm warning system, if you are put under a warning, there is no question that you should take action and protect yourself and your property. But what if the warning is posed with a probability of the sto...
Highway Runoff
Planet Possible - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutesThe water that runs off our traffic-filled roads ends up in our rivers, but we know little about it, it's hardly monitored and improving the quality of that runoff is a huge task. Join us for this special episode of Planet Possible in collaboration with Watershed Investigations as we dig into t...
Severe Stats at the SPC
Weather Geeks - February 28, 2024 13:31 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Evan Bentley Episode Intro: In the world of meteorology, the letters “SPC” carry a lot of weight. From severe weather to flooding and fire, the Storm Prediction Center covers almost everything under the sun! Today’s guest has spent the past several years on staff at the SPC as a...
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano Retrospective
Weather Geeks - February 21, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. David Wilmouth Episode Intro: On January 15, 2022, a massive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano occurred, sending literal shockwaves around the globe and releasing millions of tons of material into the atmosphere. This eruption was unprecedented in the modern ...
Science Behind Billion Dollar Disasters
Weather Geeks - February 14, 2024 08:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Adam Smith, NOAA / NCEI Episode Intro: 2023 set the record for the most billion dollar disasters in the United States in one calendar year. As the name suggests, a billion dollar disaster is a weather or climate disaster event with losses exceeding one billion dollars. From floo...
Weathergami
Weather Geeks - February 07, 2024 08:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Jonathan Kahl, Professor at UW-Milwaukee If you’re a sports fan, you may know the term “Scorigami!” When you have a score combination that has never occurred before, you achieve Scorigami! And this inspired our guest Dr. Jonathan Kahl to create “Weathergami.” Instead of Team...
Looking Back and Forward at the NWS
Weather Geeks - January 31, 2024 08:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Greg Carbin Over the past half a century, we’ve been experiencing the same thunderstorms, blizzards, and hurricanes. Our changing climate may have altered how these weather phenomena act, and in turn the technology we use to research and forecast these events have changed as wel...
How Do People Interpret Weather Warnings (Re-release of episode 288 from 9/20/23)
Weather Geeks - January 24, 2024 09:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Justin Sharpe We all know the saying “if a tree falls in a forest and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Well in our world, we can say something like “if a forecast is perfect, but it doesn’t get disseminated properly, did it do any good?” There are sti...
Flood Ready?
Planet Possible - January 19, 2024 06:45 - 41 minutesAre you flood ready? How do you find out if your home is at risk of flooding? What can you do to protect your home and if water does suddenly come through your door, what should you do next? With much of England and Scotland experiencing rainfall 70% above average for December, flooding has imp...
Trailblazing at the SPC (Re-release of Ep 280 from 8/2/2023)
Weather Geeks - January 17, 2024 08:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Liz Leitman You are probably familiar with severe thunderstorm and tornado watches. The storm prediction center and its predecessors have been issuing them since the 1950’s to alert people that thunderstorms may develop and bring damaging winds, hail or tornadoes. About a hundre...
"Our Fragile Moment" Author Dr. Michael Mann (re-release of Ep 286 from 9/27/2023)
Weather Geeks - January 10, 2024 08:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Michael Mann The topic of climate change and the future of our planet is both a controversial as well as at times difficult topic to understand. But if we want to know more about our future, we need to take a look into the history of our planet and our species. In his latest...
Sports & Weather: Better Together (RERUN)
Weather Geeks - January 03, 2024 16:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuests: Jessica Arnoldy Introduction: A lot of us have memories of being carpooled to your Saturday morning Little League game or having PB&J’s at the picnic table after soccer practice with your teammates before seeing them in class the very next day. Or how about waking up early to ...
2023 Weather Wrap-Up
Weather Geeks - December 20, 2023 08:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsRoundtable with: Jen Carfagno, Dr. Greg Postel, Heather Zons Another year around the sun means another year of all sorts of weather, both the beautiful and the horrible. Every single season brought its own flavor of extreme weather, from crippling winter storms to monstrous tornadoes t...
COP28
Planet Possible - December 20, 2023 06:45 - 37 minutes2023 is set to be the hottest year on record with temperatures 1.4 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average and sea surface temperatures for the polar oceans reaching almost 21 degrees C in October. In recent years we’ve seen the climate COPs making headline news - so what was it like to...
Coral Reef Watch Program
Weather Geeks - December 13, 2023 09:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Derek Manzello, Program Coordinator Picture a coral reef, and you probably have visions of Flounder from The Little Mermaid or Crush from Finding Nemo. Coral reefs should be brimming with life, and are one of Earth’s most diverse ecosystems, providing significant ecological, eco...
Climavision - Increasing Radar Coverage
Weather Geeks - December 06, 2023 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Chris Goode, Climavision Founder Introduction: You know the saying: if you put good in, you get good out! In the meteorology world, if you put good data in, you’ll get a good forecast out. But what about the areas that don’t have good data to put into the model, more specificall...
Improving Weather Models Using Satellites
Weather Geeks - November 29, 2023 15:20 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Mayra Oyola-Merced, Assistant Professor at UW-Madison Introduction: Whether it is preparing for hurricane season or getting ready for a severe weather outbreak, you might hear the phrase “weather models.” All kinds of data go into these models, but a new input could be game chan...
Plastic Grass
Planet Possible - November 23, 2023 06:30 - 46 minutesYou might already have a view on whether it’s a helpful way of bringing some greenery to a tricky space – or that it should be banned entirely. Either way, we’re going to explore in this episode some of the science and evidence behind the use of plastic grass, think about why it’s proving so pop...
Digging Into The Central Sierra Snow Lab
Weather Geeks - November 15, 2023 09:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Andrew Schwartz For several months of the year, the Central Sierra Snow Lab looks like a winter wonderland. Over 60 feet of snow fell this past winter at the lab and our next guest was there to experience it all. Dr. Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist and station manager of the...
Further Understanding Midwestern Tornadogenesis
Weather Geeks - November 08, 2023 08:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Stephanie Zick, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech When we think of tornadoes, our minds are immediately drawn to the Southern Plains or the Southeast, right? Well the Midwest has also had their fair share of damaging and deadly tornadoes, not just historically but every s...
Hurricane Otis Special
Weather Geeks - November 01, 2023 07:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsHost Jen Carfagno with Guest Dr. Greg Postel With a raging El Nino in effect, the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was bound to be above average. However, the number of storms that have impacted land has been surprising! From October 9th to October 25th, western Mexico has been hit b...
"Hurricane Otis Special"
Weather Geeks - November 01, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsGuest: Dr. Greg Postel & Jen Carfagno, The Weather Channel Introduction: With a raging El Nino in effect, the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was bound to be above average. However, the number of storms that have impacted land has been surprising! From October 9th to October 25th, wes...
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