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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Still jealous you got to tour The Weather Channel
Ah, but you also have a few years on me, so maybe one day soon I’ll get to as well =D