Best Weather Group Television Podcasts (2024)

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Space Weather Prediction Center 44:43

2d ago44:43

44:43

Guest: Clinton Wallace, Director of the SWPC Weather Geeks often spend their time looking up at the sky, but there are some Geeks that look even farther up! Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center are tasked with looking at everything PAST our atmosphere to warn us of any impending threats. However, sometimes those threats can be visu…

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Voyages Beyond the Horizon 54:44

9d ago54:44

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Guest: Dr. Dawn Wright, United States Science Envoy One of the greatest joys in being a scientist is passing your knowledge onto others, whether that is esteemed colleagues on the other side of a breakthrough or young minds that are infatuated with the field. Sometimes, passing that knowledge takes us out of our comfort zone and into other fields, …

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Improving Hurricane Risk Perceptions 35:14

16d ago35:14

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Guest: Dr. Jason Senkbeil, Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Hurricane season is rapidly approaching! Many elements that go into a busy tropical season, like warm SST’s and the ENSO phase, already have forecasters worried that we could have a blockbuster season. I’m sure a lot of us Weather Geeks are prepared for what that could enta…

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D-Day: How the Weather Saved NATO 35:20

23d ago35:20

35:20

Guest: John Ross, author Whether you’ve heard about D-Day or the Battle of Normandy through a textbook at school many years ago or from a documentary on TV, the images you’ve seen of the seaborne invasion surely are etched into your mind. All of the troops storming the beaches from the sea, flanked by gunfire and explosions. Of course the logistics…

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Let's Geek Out About Tornadoes! 55:25

1M ago55:25

55:25

Guest: Dr. Paul Markowski, Penn State We are in the throes of the springtime severe season and even as we transition to summer, the potential for supercells and tornadoes doesn’t slow down. In fact, the severe risk moves more from the Central Plains and into the Eastern states…and that’s where we find today’s guest! Dr. Paul Markowski is the Head o…

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Weather On Top of the World 31:11

1M ago31:11

31:11

Guest: Charlie Peachey, Mount Washington Weather Observer The United States sees almost every kind of meteorological phenomena imaginable, but there’s one place where the weather can be amplified. Located at over 6000 feet in New Hampshire, Mount Washington is famous for its weather extremes. The Mount Washington Observatory is a world renowned ins…

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Behind the Scenes at NCEI 42:04

1M ago42:04

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Guest: Jared Rennie, NCEI Research Meteorologist Gathering and analyzing data today to help us prepare for tomorrow. One sentence with a multitude of implications. NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information seeks to provide not just data, but solutions to help the U.S. and those around the world as our climate continues to change. Jared …

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New Developments in Rapid Intensification 31:45

2M ago31:45

31:45

Guest: Dr. Falko Judt, Research Meteorologist at NCAR In tropical meteorology, the term ‘rapid intensification’ describes a tropical cyclone that does just that: it rapidly intensifies. The official definition is a tropical system whose maximum sustained winds increase by at least 35 mph in a 24-hour period. Sometimes though, it’s much more intense…

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Let’s Clear the Biases in Weather AI 33:54

2M ago33:54

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Guest: Dr. Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma We as humans all have biases whether we like to believe it or not, especially when it comes to meteorology. You may have heard of confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger effect, survivor’s bias, cognitive dissonance and more! However, humans aren’t the only ones who are susceptible to bias: it has been show…

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High Elevation Weather Stations 46:58

2M ago46:58

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Guest: 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 populated areas, so why would we need to have weather stations i…

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Weather & Fashion 27:06

2M ago27:06

27:06

Guest: 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 colors so the sun’s heat wasn’t too intense on your body. These ar…

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How AI is Helping Weather Models Make the Grade 30:44

3M ago30:44

30:44

Guest: 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 seems like a basic question, but one that isn’t so easy to answer..…

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A Deeper Dive Into Our Closest Star 1:06:42

3M ago1:06:42

1:06:42

Guest: 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 getting plenty of attention. So we wanted to take a deeper look in…

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Caribbean Flash Droughts 27:01

3M ago27:01

27:01

Guest: 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 heads, what does that look like? Well, there hasn’t been a TON of…

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The Berardelli Bonus 28:42

3M ago28:42

28:42

Guest: 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 guest today has been incorporating hints of our changing climate in…

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Climate & Environmental Law 37:20

4M ago37:20

37:20

Guest: 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 and financial leaders. We have to hope that they have the right …

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Natural Disaster Economics 36:22

4M ago36:22

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Guest: 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 storm making a severe impact? Would you be more or less influenced …

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Severe Stats at the SPC 43:50

4M ago43:50

43:50

Guest: 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 mesoscale-assistant/fire weather forecaster. He has brought his…

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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano Retrospective 38:55

4M ago38:55

38:55

Guest: 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 satellite era in terms of how much water vapor was injected into…

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Science Behind Billion Dollar Disasters 29:41

5M ago29:41

29:41

Guest: 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 flooding to drought, winter storms to hurricanes, there were 28 bill…

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Weathergami 29:39

5M ago29:39

29:39

Guest: 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 A vs Team B, he looks at high temperature vs low temperature at…

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Looking Back and Forward at the NWS 36:19

5M ago36:19

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Guest: 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 well! From a local NWS office to the SPC and the WPC, today’s guest…

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How Do People Interpret Weather Warnings (Re-release of episode 288 from 9/20/23) 35:44

5M ago35:44

35:44

Guest: 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 still leaps and bounds that need to be made in the weather industry…

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Trailblazing at the SPC (Re-release of Ep 280 from 8/2/2023) 36:19

5M ago36:19

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Guest: 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 hundred of these are issued every year. Believe it or not, the first c…

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"Our Fragile Moment" Author Dr. Michael Mann (re-release of Ep 286 from 9/27/2023) 39:45

6M ago39:45

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Guest: 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 book, Our Fragile Moment, Dr. Michael Mann walks readers throug…

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Sports & Weather: Better Together (RERUN) 33:50

6M ago33:50

33:50

Guests: 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 tailgate for the afternoon football game? Sports have such an imp…

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2023 Weather Wrap-Up 39:43

6M ago39:43

39:43

Roundtable 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 to scalding wildfires and of course tropical storms and hurricane…

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Coral Reef Watch Program 30:50

7M ago30:50

30:50

Guest: 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, economic and societal benefits. Unfortunately, they are threatened …

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Climavision - Increasing Radar Coverage 28:07

7M ago28:07

28:07

Guest: 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 specifically good radar data? Some areas just aren’t adequately covered and…

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Improving Weather Models Using Satellites 41:56

7M ago41:56

41:56

Guest: 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 changing for weather modeling as we head into the future. Satellites…

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Digging Into The Central Sierra Snow Lab 30:09

8M ago30:09

30:09

Guest: 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 University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, stud…

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Further Understanding Midwestern Tornadogenesis 28:24

8M ago28:24

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Guest: 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 single year. A lot of research has been focused on our typical “T…

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Hurricane Otis Special 27:18

8M ago27:18

27:18

Host 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 by FOUR consecutive tropical cyclones. Three were hurricanes at lan…

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"Hurricane Otis Special" 27:29

8M ago27:29

27:29

Guest: 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, western Mexico has been hit by FOUR consecutive tropical cyclones. …

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CANARY, the Story of Dr. Lonnie Thompson 36:34

8M ago36:34

36:34

Guest: Dr. Lonnie Thompson It’s not just superheroes and first responders that risk their lives to save others, but what about a climatologist? Would you believe that our guest today climbed the summit of multiple mountains for climate research so we could all better understand how our climate has changed over the years? Well it’s true, and it real…

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Constellation of Radar Satellites 40:33

8M ago40:33

40:33

Guest: Rei Goffer, Tomorrow.io Ursa Minor. Canis Major. Orion. These are all star patterns that you can detect in the night sky called constellations! No matter where you live on Earth, there are constellations that will greet you as you look up. That same principle inspired the company Tomorrow.io to create a plan to launch dozens of radar satelli…

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Solar Eclipse Expedition 35:07

9M ago35:07

35:07

Guest: Don Hartsell Introduction: In the upcoming months, we have not one, but two solar eclipses that are set to sweep across the continental United States: an annular eclipse on October 14 and a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The eclipse in April will be the second total eclipse to cross the country in the past decade and the last until 20…

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Verifying Extreme Weather Records 35:21

9M ago35:21

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Guest: Dr. Randy Cerveny When we hear about extreme weather and changing climate, often we hear about the extreme records that are associated with these events: Things like the hottest temperature streak, the heaviest rainfall, and so forth. You may notice when these events are reported, it’s often with the caveat: “if verified”. An often overlooke…

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"Our Fragile Moment" Author Dr. Michael Mann 39:45

9M ago39:45

39:45

Guest: 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 book, Our Fragile Moment, Dr. Michael Mann walks readers throug…

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How Do People Interpret Weather Warnings 35:44

9M ago35:44

35:44

Guest: 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 still leaps and bounds that need to be made in the weather industry…

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Airborne Phased Array Radar 36:30

10M ago36:30

36:30

Guests: Dr. Linnea Avallone & Nicholas Anderson, National Science Foundation While aircraft radar has come along away over the past several decades, the U.S. National Science Foundation, or NSF, is looking to take things a step forward with an investment of over 90 million dollars to create the Airborne Phased Array Radar. This will be a state-of-t…

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Recapping Hurricane Idalia 34:59

10M ago34:59

34:59

Guest: Dr. Rick Knabb Introduction: As we approach the midpoint of the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season, we just experienced the landfall of Hurricane Idalia: a major hurricane. With much of the season still ahead of us, we're joined today by The Weather Channel hurricane expert, Dr. Rick Knabb, to discuss the storm and what to expect going forward i…

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World 36:56

10M ago36:56

36:56

Guest: John Valliant While this year’s wildfire season in the United States hasn’t really picked up steam, the wildfires in Canada have taken over the headlines. Not just because of the extent of the fires, but because of the smoke they are emitting that is wafting into the U.S. and causing some of the worst air quality seen in years. This has been…

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New Hurricane Analysis & Forecast System 36:21

10M ago36:21

36:21

Guest: Dr. Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan With the Atlantic hurricane season in full swing, a new hurricane forecast model is ready to improve forecast accuracy as well as increase our understanding of tropical cyclones. Joining me today is Dr. Sundararaman “Gopal” Gopalakrishnan, senior meteorologist and leader of the modeling team that is behind NOA…

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Mental Health at the NWS 23:58

11M ago23:58

23:58

Guest: Lieutenant Commander Valerie Gardner, Chief of Behavior Health and Wellness at the National Weather Service Forecasting for natural disasters brings one level of stress, and the aftermath can raise it to a whole new level of challenges. There is a lot of attention on the well-being of the people affected by these natural disasters…but what a…

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A Conversation with Margaret Orr 41:42

11M ago41:42

41:42

Guest: WDSU New Orleans' Chief Meteorologist Margaret Orr For over 40 years, viewers in New Orleans have tuned in and watched Margaret Orr deliver their forecast on their local news, eventually becoming her station’s chief meteorologist in 2009. Throughout her career, she’s covered numerous landmark weather events in southeast Louisiana and earned …

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Trailblazing at the SPC 36:19

11M ago36:19

36:19

Guest: Liz Leitman Introduction: 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 hundred of these are issued every year. Believe it or no…

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It's Time to Get FORTIFIED 28:45

11M ago28:45

28:45

Guests: Fred Malik, IBHS Introduction: After severe weather barrels through a town and destroys everything in its wake, there are stories of survival and perseverance. But then, these communities are tasked to rebuild. But are they rebuilding correctly? Are the new homes being built going to keep the owners more safe than they were before, or do th…

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Kansas' Deadliest Tornado 29:36

12M ago29:36

29:36

Guests: Jim Minick Introduction: Tornadoes are one of the most violent weather phenomena on our planet, the strongest of which have been rated an EF5, or an F5 before 2007 when the Enhanced Fujita scale was put into practice. These incredibly violent tornadoes are uncommon, with the last one occurring 10 years ago in 2013. Today, we’re going to go …

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Seeing the Weather in Virtual Reality 28:46

12M ago28:46

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Guests: Jase Bernhardt, Ph.D. Introduction: They say you have to see it to believe it, and that phrase has been tested time and time again in social sciences, especially in the meteorology field. Can you believe that there is a tornado outside during a tornado warning if you can’t see it if you look down the street? How would you know how to react …

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