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6 January 2009
Turn Around..Don't Drown
If you ask any Synoptic forecaster like myself, what the number one weather killer is, you will likely get the same answer. It doesn’t matter if it’s a private TV Meteorologist like me, or a NOAA forecaster, or one from Environment Canada, the BBC, or the UK Met. Office. It’s not tornadoes or hurricanes. It’s heat. (You thought I was going to say flash flooding didn’t you!) At least in …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.