Listen to Across the Sky podcast; episode 19 coming soon!
Sometimes there is a topic so broad it can’t be contained to a single podcast episode. Such is the case with a recent conversation with Warren Madden, who leads the Air Force’s Chief Aerial Recon Coordination of All Hurricanes at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Madden was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Air Force in 1985, worked on the air as a meteorologist in Dayton, Ohio, in the 1990s, and joined the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1998. Before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2012, he flew into some of the most historic hurricanes on record: Floyd, Ivan, Rita and Wilma.
Madden took some time to talk about his experiences with the Lee Weather Team in a conversation that was split into two episodes.
In this first episode, Madden provides background on how he got interested into weather and meteorology, and explains how aircraft can be used during hurricane season.
In this second episode, Madden talks about the lightning he saw flying into Hurricane Rita.
And check back Monday for the next episode. Valerie Sanders, meteorologist and president of WeatherCall Services, talks with us about the positives and negatives of smartphone weather alerts: the risks over-warning, lack of oversight in app development and what people can do to cut back on the noise.
About the Across the Sky podcast
The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team:
Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises’ Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia.
