...for the Annual Fermilab Tornado and Severe Storm Seminar with WGN's Tom Skilling!
Where: Fermi National Laboratory, Ramsey Auditorium in Batavia, IL.
When: Saturday, April 10th; there will be two sessions with each lasting about 4 hours. The first one will begin at noon and the second one around 6pm. It's free and open to the public! Be sure to come early as seats fill up quickly.
This year's speakers include:
Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP): Revolutionary Advances in Computer Modeling Offer Much Earlier Warning of Nature's Most Extereme Weather Outbreaks
Dr. Mary Ann Cooper MD, University of Illinois, Chicago: Lightning, Take it Seriously!
Brian Smith, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Omaha: The Tornado, A Powerful and Unusual Phenomena
Gino Izzi, Lead Forecaster National Weather Service, Chicago: A Look at the Forecastibility of the F-5 August 1990 Plainfield, IL Tornado
Ed Fenelon, Meteorologist in Charge, National Weather Service, Chicago: Dual-Polarization Doppler Radar- Coming Soon!
Jim Allsopp, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Chicago: Tornado Myth-Busting
Dr. Jim Angel, State Climatologist for Illinois, Midwestern Regional Forecast Center, Champaign: Science and Serendipity
...and of course -
Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV and the Chicago Tribune
If you've got time and don't mind the drive, stop by and learn all there is about weather and forecasting. Ty and myself will be at the evening session. So come and say "hi".
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