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Jeremy,
I would really like to see some cooler temperatures again with lows at least below freezing again. It is already extremely warm and it is only the middle of March. When will the pattern transition back to a ridge in the Pacific? Also, many areas missed out on the rainfall from the last few storm systems and it is extremely dry in some areas!!!
Devin

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Devin,

Temps will very likely be below freezing a few more times(maybe more) before we hit spring in full stride. Also, the pattern looks very wet beginning next week. Hopefully all areas see some rain.

Jeremy

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Hello, I hope I'm not asking much, but could you possibly forward this to you're webmaster? I'm very happy now that you have the personalites up on the site, but what about the stations history. I always like to read that. I know you may not want it up, but I really thought it would be good since you're the only station that has it(?). Again, I hope this isn't much to you and (to everybody) that you are still having the new site built.

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Alden,

Thanks for the post! We will pass along your suggestions.

Jeremy

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I enjoy the blog and do not mean to sounds mean spirited... but, what's with the site. It has never been corrected. I understand change happens but I can't get used to this.

Too much white.

I do like the quick hit blog archives.

Why only on 1/2 of my screen ( and this is more than my settings).

Otherwise, keep it up. Fantastical weather. What is this rain you speak of next week?

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Hank,

The website is being updated everyday...some is noticable...other areas like you mentioned have not been changed YET.

Next week looks quite active with some decent chances of rain. Still too early to tell if severe weather would be an issue or not.

Jeremy

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So Jeremy, you have been here for a bit...what are your thoughts on KC? I see your previous station still has all your info on the the site bios. The thing of interest for me is that you would have liked to report on the OK outbreak in '99, I suppose this would be the event that all meteorlogists would have liked to have reported on - at a distance. Also...I see you did some work at Weather Central. In researching that a bit, looks like you covered Ivan. What are your thoughts on working the tropics compared to the midwest? I am a junkie for both, but curious to get your thoughts.

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Scott,

My last job was complex in that I was employed by Weather Central...but was on-air at the FOX & ABC stations. All three companies had different ownership, but an agreement that worked for each. Weather Central makes graphics computers, like the ones the NBC Action Weather Team uses everyday. Weather Central provides weather pages for newspapers(KC Star). Basically anything weather related to on-air, online, and print they have a hand in.

It was a great experience to work there, but I needed a bigger challenge in a bigger market closer to the action. So far KC has been great. From my co-workers to the community everyone has been very welcoming.

I'm not sure if you saw me doing a few promotional clips on the Weather Central site in regards to Ivan. That was taped probably 1-3 years ago...but that was just staged stuff(isn't TV great!). It was to show off the graphics more than anything. Outside of what I learned in college and any seminars or journals...I have no first hand experience with tropical weather.

Jeremy

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Graphics. Hmmm..you have mentioned previously in earlier blogs that this is an interest of yours. Is this a skill you have in creating graphics, or do you seek just to find better ones and more informative graphics for the viewers? Also, as far as tropics, its funny…by studying hurricanes, this is what brought be back into studying the land based storms, but having a tropical base, it’s a slightly different base of reference. Instead of focusing on the tropical models and warm core storms, obviously, much different on land. I will say that there are principles I learned in the tropical world that do apply for land based that most folks don’t consider. I think this is where I became so relationship focused in cause and effect and how other features relate. This is a huge concept required in the tropics, less on land based to an extent. I will say, this conceptual relationship model I work from did help me very quickly understand the LRC and the internal workings…

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Scott,

When it comes to graphics you have to walk a fine line of using the graphics to look good and 'pretty'...but keeping them simple enough for viewers to understand. I think a good example of this is when we use LIVE ESP. Some things are complex on it, but with our experience and educational background we are able to tell people what they are looking at and why it is important.

Jeremy