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Air Date: October 1, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Length: 1 Hour 3 Minutes
A hotter planet makes conditions for fires more likely and a warmer ocean can fuel stronger storms—including hurricanes. To better understand the ocean, weather, and climate connection, join NOAA Climatologist Tom Di Liberto as he examines the “wild weather.” Dr. Gerry Bell of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center also provides insight into how meteorologists and climatologists use technology and human skill to create reliable weather and climate forecasts. Watch the full episode or jump to one of the segments below.
Wild Weather Around the World
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Ocean & Climate Patterns: El Niño and La Niña
WATCH - 11:52
Hurricane Forecasting
WATCH - 21:48
BONUS - Climate Alive! 2020: Wild Weather with Tom Di Liberto
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Host: Symone Barkley
Symone serves as the National Ocean Service (NOS) Exhibits Manager and Education Specialist. She works to increase public awareness of products and services NOS provides through outreach at conferences, workshops, festivals, and other events. Symone hosts the Planet NOAA Podcast and Ocean Today, Every Full Moon, a collection of videos showcasing the beauty and mystery of the ocean realm while exploring various ocean topics. Through her support of NOS and NOAA education, Symone is committed to mentoring students, training educators, and creating authentic and effective systems to recruit and retain traditionally excluded groups in ocean science.
Guest: Tom Di Liberto
Tom Di Liberto is a climatologist and science communicator working as the consulting climatologist and social media editor for NOAA’s Climate.gov. He spends his days talking and thinking about climate science and climate change, their impacts on society, and how best to create engaging conversations on the topics.
Guest: Dr. Gerry Bell
Dr. Gerry Bell is a hurricane climate specialist and research meteorologist at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in Camp Springs, Maryland.
Dr. Bell’s extensive research into the climate factors controlling seasonal hurricane activity contributed to the establishment of NOAA’s seasonal Atlantic hurricane outlooks in 1998. Since that time he has been the lead scientist and forecaster of NOAA’s Seasonal Hurricane Outlook Team, and lead author of the Atlantic hurricane outlooks. Dr. Bell has published numerous scientific papers and given many lectures on Atlantic hurricanes.
