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Last Update 02/10/08 |
February 5, 2008 -- Rusty Pfost, Meteorologist-In-Charge, Miami WFO, National Weather Service On Tuesday, February 5th 2008, Charlie discussed this meeting’s “Today in weather” event which was the current severe weather system moving through Northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee. In other news, the national AMS conference was well attended by North Florida AMS members, and students and faculty of Florida State University with approximately 30 members. This week is Hazardous Weather Awareness Week (HWAW) and help is needed from our members to help with our booth in the Oglesby Union from 10 AM – 2PM. Members will be covering all hazardous weather events, and how Florida State University became Storm Ready. The North Florida American Meteorological Society’s 5th Annual Banquet will be Thursday, February 28, 2008. Our key note speaker, Steve Lyons, will be speaking about The Weather Channel’s operational mode during approaching land falling US hurricanes, and any other topic requests from members to be included. The cost of the banquet is $10 for students and their dates, professional members and their spouse $20 each, non-member students $25, and general public $35. Sign up deadline is by February 21st in room 304 or 305A of the Love building; checks made payable to North Florida AMS. More information can be found at http://www.northflams.org. Kevin then announced our account balance of $2,040.24. The basketball tailgate was Feb 3rd against UNC and had a great turn out. Coming up on April 8th is the mini-golf tournament. We need sponsors and Kevin came up with a sponsor run with approximately 10 restaurants per group to attempt to get. The next Programs Committee, Membership/Fundraising Committee, and the Publicity Committee meetings will be in early March. Following, Liane announced the next bake sale, which will be Wednesday February 20th from 10 AM – 2 PM; help is primarily needed from 12:20 – 1:10 PM. Alec then announced that any outreach events need to be forwarded to him, and talked about the Capital Regional Science Fair. At the next Outreach committee meeting, lessons plans will be made for our chapter’s website. Andy then introduced our speaker, Rusty Pfost, the Meteorologist in Charge at the National Weather Service in Miami. Russell L. (Rusty) Pfost is the Meteorologist-in-Charge of the Miami-South Florida Weather Forecast Office of the National Weather Service. Rusty is a native of Dunedin, Florida, and a graduate of Pinellas County (Fla.) Public Schools. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from Florida State University (Phi Beta Kappa) (1977), and a Master of Science degree in earth and atmospheric science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) (1990). Pfost’s presentation included many weather observations and records from the 1800’s, discussing the history and how these observations help with records today. With observations from 1857, scientists can find extreme records such as a low of 30 degrees Fahrenheit in Miami. For more information: Charlie Woodrum, northflams@gmail.com. Report submitted by Liane Claytor, Secretary. |
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