The Surfer Dude and Stormmaster G–Part IV
This is the fourth and final part of “The Surfer Dude and Stormmaster G,” an excerpt from Inside The Weather Channel. Next week I’ll begin a series taking you behind the scenes of “Your Weather Today,” the Weather Channel’s popular morning show, as it was in late 2008 with Marshall Seese and Heather Tesch. THE SURFER DUDE AND STORMMASTER G Two of the Best Reasons to Watch The Weather Channel–Part IV The Weather Channel’s severe weather expert, Greg Forbes, like the network’s hurricane expert, Steve Lyons, sees his first duty to the public as opposed to The Weather Channel. The channel, however, plays an extremely important role in what both he and...
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Here’s part III of an excerpt from INSIDE THE WEATHER CHANNEL, “The Surfer Dude and Stormmaster G.” THE SURFER DUDE AND STORMMASTER G Two of the Best Reasons to Watch The Weather Channel–Part III THE GREENSBURG MONSTER Mid-afternoon, May 4, 2007. The Weather Channel’s severe weather expert, Dr. Greg Forbes, is concerned. The NWS’s Storm Prediction Center has issued an outlook for the following day calling for widespread severe thunderstorms, some with tornadoes, over the central and southern Great Plains. It’s drawing a lot of attention. But Greg sees a more immediate, perhaps dangerous, threat erupting within the next few hours and wants to...
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Following is Part II of The Surfer Dude and Stormmaster G, an excerpt from INSIDE THE WEATHER CHANNEL, a work in progress. Part III will appear in a couple of weeks. THE SURFER DUDE AND STORMMASTER G Two of the Best Reasons to Watch The Weather Channel–Part II PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT ISN’T BEING SAID On the air, Steve Lyons sometimes treads a fine line when he doesn’t agree with a NHC forecast. He’ll never say explicitly that he thinks the Hurricane Center is wrong. So as a viewer, you have to learn to read between the lines. And that means paying attention not so much to what he says as to what he doesn’t say, or show. In June 2005, prior to Dennis...
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Following is Part I of “The Surfer Dude and Stormmaster G,” an excerpt from INSIDE THE WEATHER CHANNEL. Next week, Part II. THE SURFER DUDE AND STORMMASTER G Two of the Best Reasons to Watch The Weather Channel–Part I Early morning, July 10, 2005. Extremely dangerous Hurricane Dennis, centered about 245 miles southeast of Biloxi, Mississippi, and packing sustained winds of 145 mph, is charging toward the eastern Gulf Coast. Hurricane warnings blanket the shorelines of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. With Dennis on a steady north-northwest track, Mobile, Alabama, appears to be ground zero for the violent storm’s landfall. By mid-morning,...
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Senior Meteorologist
The Weather Channel (Ret)
Colonel, USAF Weather Officer (Ret)
Awarded the Legion of Merit
