[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Name of WCVB meteorologist I was Trying to Remember

[Stan Rose]

For those of you who grew up in the Boston area in the 60s, my favorite
forecasters were Don Kent and Bruce Schwoegler, both on WBZ.

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 12:49 PM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> During the post-presentation chatter, Ted Kochansky and I were trying to
> remember the names of local Boston meteorologists with good forecasting
> reputations. I had forgotten WCVB's Mike Wankum. He's not the only reliable
> weather forecaster, but he's been around awhile and is very good.
>
> That's the name I was fishing for.
>
> No matter -- the best meteorologist is the one who gives the storm warning
> and saves your hide while you are watching.
>
> I'm not kidding -- I grew up in the suburbs of the Chicago area, away from
> the protective effects of Lake Michigan. So I know what a tornado warning
> looks and feels like, and what happens when people don't get or don't heed
> the warnings -- as in Belvidere, IL in 1967 -- one of ten tornadoes that
> afternoon, with tragic death tolls. Forecasting has come a long way since
> then.
>
> Plainfield, IL (Coal City) tornado of 1990:
>
> https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-coal-city-plainfield-tornado-20150624-story.html (No
> paywall.)
>
> I did not find information about this tornado being anticyclonic, though I
> recall that at the time there was speculation that it was rotating the
> "wrong" direction. There were a few factors which raised the death toll,
> including no advance warning. There were several reasons for that lack of
> warning, not the least being that the local Doppler radar had been hit by
> lightning. Usually, anticyclonic tornadoes are much weaker and
> shorter-lived than cyclonic tornadoes. (This applies in both hemispheres,
> even though anticyclonic in the Southern Hemisphere would be
> counterclockwise.)
>
> Rare Clockwise Tornado
> https://www.insidescience.org/video/rare-clockwise-tornado
>
> -- Bob Primak
>
>
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