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

[Joel Shwimer]

Harvey Leonard (Channel 5?)

On 3/29/2023 2:58 PM, Stan Rose wrote:
> 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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