Raised on a farm near Kingman, KS in the middle of tornado country sparked a love for meteorology early in life. I went on to study Atmospheric Science at the University of Kansas where I graduated in 1990. I worked for WeatherData, Inc. (now AccuWeather) full time before moving over to KSNW-TV full-time in 1995. I remained on air until 2013 before taking a brief break, then starting up my own independent weather forecasting for various radio and TV stations. I also began teaching meteorology at Butler Community College and continue to do so. Currently, my forecasts can be heard and seen on KSOK and KGPT. I am married with three adult children and enjoy spending time on the family farm (mostly looking at the wide-open sky!).
Will it be a “busy” storm season? It’s all relative! If there’s only one single tornado this year, that’d be a dud, right? Unless it hits your house or town, then 2020 is a “bad” year…for you. Mark Bogner looks at the climate hints that point to what this spring may look like.
What is shaped like a boat and has a floatie at each corner? Your car, truck or van. The reason we say “Turn Around, Don’t Drown,’ explained in today’s Awareness Week article.
To me, this spring’s severe weather threat hinges on one word. Drought. It is a word that has become all to familiar, it seems over the last 10 years here in Kansas. In my experience, the dry line follows the drought and with a hot, dry, baked soil extending now all of the way to
I was mis-informed that they were only rated “up to EF4” when, in fact, they are rated up to 250 mph winds which is well into the high end of the EF5 category.
Every time we give weather talks, we lie. Not maliciously, mind you, but in our effort to comfort, we gloss over some very frightening statistics.
It never ceases to amaze me how some old myths that have LONG been debunked are still practiced by people on a regular basis.
Is a city-slicker’s life more valuable than a farmer’s life? ABSOLUTELY not.
The poor weather staff just wants to do the best job they can while making the fewest number of people mad while providing timely information to those that need it. It is the Holy Grail. It can never be reached.
An unprecedented weather event happened in southcentral Kansas on April 8, 2015 and it had nothing to do with what was going on in the sky.
With high-end severe weather in the forecast and more undoubtedly just around the corner, it is (past) time to make sure your storm shelter is stocked and ready to go!
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