The Daily Life of Da Weatha Man

Photo: Sunset After a Rain

30Jun09

I just happened to walk outside this evening and caught a really cool sunset. I ran back in the apartment and grabbed a few shots. At least a couple of UF photo students got some cool shots, as well. It was one of the nicest sunsets I have seen in a while.

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The Weather Channel Tour and the TC Inland Impact Conference

29Jun09

Good evening, readers (if there are any left). It’s been so long since I have posted anything here. I’ve been doing the most blogging on the weather forecast blog.

Earlier in the month, four UF Geography students (including myself) and a professor (Dr. Corene Matyas) went to Atlanta for the Inland Impacts of Tropical Cyclones conference. But before that, through connections, we were able to get a tour of The Weather Channel. For weather nerds such as myself, it is pretty much the Mecca of meteorology. The place you want to see or be near at least once in your life. UF Geography alumna and TWC meteorologist Stephanie Abrams gave us the tour of the studio, control room, forecasting center and other places at the Atlanta headquarters. I was fun and I learned a lot about how things work there behind the scenes. I was able to grab a few shots during the tour and are displayed below.

The next two days, we attended the IITC conference at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta. The Weather Channel’s hurricane expert, Dr. Steve Lyons, was the first speaker and discussed “Primary Meteorological Aspects of Hurricanes Controlling Coastal and Inland Impacts.” His presentation was great and so were the others. Inland tree failures, meteorological analysis of specific storms and Predecessor Rainfall Events (PREs) were among the vast topics covered at the conference.

I learned a lot from this conference. I also noticed how inland impacts of tropical systems are often ignored, especially by the media where they usually focus on coastal impacts. This should help give me some ideas for graduate studies.

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Law Commencement

08Jun09

I know these are a little old, but I just now finally remembered to place these work photos online. These are some of the photos from the May 15 UF Levin College of Law Commencement ceremony at the O-Dome.

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Photo: Heavener Football Complex, High-Pass Style

08Jun09

Took this for work (UF Law School). It’s being used on this website, too.

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Splash

17May09

Leaf Splash, originally uploaded by thewxmanjeckel_83.

During our brief rain storm in southwest Gainesville, I thought I would (carefully) try to get some weather photos. This was one of them. There are a few others on my Flickr photostream.

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Vacation Photos

16May09

Finally, the cruise and vacation photos are posted on Flickr. You can view the slideshow to our best vacation ever (so far, at least) by clicking the following link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daweathaman-journalist/sets/72157618188686377/show/.

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Cool Photo: Atlantis, Hubble and the Sun.

16May09

STS-125 Atlantis and Hubble Solar Transit (200905130002HQ), originally uploaded by nasa hq photo.

I found this photo online this morning and thought I was cool to share. Astrophotographer Thierry Legault (http://www.astrophoto.fr/) took this and other photos of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope in front of the Sun. The photo above is actually a tight crop and was taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope.

More photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/

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American Photo Mag’s “12 Flickr Superstars”

30Apr09

By Charles E. Roop

If anyone has a chance and extra $5 in their wallets, pick up the May/June issue of American Photo from their newsstands. There are some interesting stories in this issue, including a section about the Superstars of Flickr. They discuss the social photo site and 12 of the best photogs on Flickr. Here are a few links photogs featured in the article:

Lauren Rosenbaum – http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/

Traci Matlock and Ashley MacLean – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tetheredto/

Lowell Beyer (he’s from St. Augustine) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowellbeyer/

Olivia Bee – http://www.flickr.com/photos/-oliviabee-/

There is just a few links. Most of these people are doing this as a hobby. Lauren is a stay-at-home mother while Olivia is a high school student. Check out American Photo for the rest.

If you are interested in seeing my stuff on Flickr, check out the following page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daweathaman-journalist/

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Galloping Galoshes

21Apr09

Galloping Galoshes, originally uploaded by thewxmanjeckel_83.

A woman walks towards Weimer Hall in the rain at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fla. on April 20, 2009. Gainesville Regional Airport had received around three-tenths of an inch of rain as of 6 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service in Jacksonville. The front that brought the rain should move out of the area by this morning.

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