This week we talk about another branch of earth science, meteorology. We discuss the upcoming severe weather season and Shannon’s close call with a tornadic storm. Also updates on past stories, feedback, and fun paper friday!
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
The Brunt Väisälä frequency

Story Updates and Feedback

Nasa has decided to go with the boulder snatch technique for an asteroid mission launching in 2020
If you like space news and talk, checkout “The Orbital Mechanics” podcast.
A very early copy of William Smith’s map has been rediscovered at the geological society. You can view a digitized version of the map online.
More on the mysterious radio bursts
We got some feedback about levels (thanks Celena B.) and a problem with the show logo (thanks Ross K.). We hope we have corrected both. Please keep the feedback coming in!

Severe Weather

We encourge you to learn your way around and use the National Weather Service webpage.
Also checkout the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Storm Prediction Center.
For one of the most severe weather prone areas, Oklahoma, these three organizations are co-located in the National Weather Center
Communicating weather information, or an probabilistic information is actually really difficult.
Doing a hand analysis of data is still crucial to weather prediction. For example the analyst knows about isobar kinking.
Oklahoma Mesonet
Checkout the email “The Ticker" from the mesonet
Checkout if your local weather service office offers storm spotter training classes and get to know your branch meteorologist
John had a relevant blog post that talked about what an expert is and how important it is to know the fundamentals.
Have a disaster plan and know what to do during an emergency! This applies to field geology work just as much.

Fun Paper Friday
This week is April fools, so we have a laugh with the Journal Nature. This week we learn about the coming back of dragons and climate change.
Hamilton, A. J., May, R. M., & Waters, E. K. (2015). Zoology: Here be dragons. Nature, 1–2. doi:10.1038/520042a
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