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Blue Dot 10: How's The Weather?

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The weather: it's the ultimate ice-breaker. That's probably because it impacts us all, all the time. But what about the people who have to not only divine what's going to happen in our atmosphere (a pretty chaotic place, it turns out), but who have to then disseminate that to us everyday folk? And what if they're wrong? To to get a human perspective on this, we spoke with National Weather Service meteorologists Tom Dang and Bill Rasch, based out of Sacramento. We also spent some time with friend of Blue Dot Rob Elvington, a meteorologist from KRCR-TV in Redding.

Dave Schlom

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.

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