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<p>Harvey Leonard (Channel 5?)</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/29/2023 2:58 PM, Stan Rose wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 12:49 PM
Robert Primak <<a href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com"
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<div dir="ltr">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. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">That's the name I was fishing for.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">No matter -- the best meteorologist is the
one who gives the storm warning and saves your hide
while you are watching.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">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. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Plainfield, IL (Coal City) tornado of 1990:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><a
href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-coal-city-plainfield-tornado-20150624-story.html"
rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-coal-city-plainfield-tornado-20150624-story.html</a> (No
paywall.) <br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.) </div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>Rare Clockwise Tornado</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">-- Bob Primak </div>
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