Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) Encore with Marshall Shepherd
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Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) Encore with Marshall Shepherd

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 9, 20261 hr 16 min
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  • Science

Bomb cyclones! Polar vortices! Atmospheric rivers! And rained out barbecues. One of the world’s leading Meteorologists, Dr. Marshall Shepherd – a former NASA scientist and current Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia – is here to field a downpour of questions. We chat about percentages in forecasts, hail, sleet, storm chasing, heatwaves, fluid dynamics, TV weather people, climate change delayism and his favorite weather-themed movies. Also: what not to do with a weather balloon. Follow Dr. Shepherd on Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok His website: www.drmarshallshepherd.com His podcast: Weather...

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Oh, hey, this is 2026 Alley and I'm recording this from a hotel room because I'm on the road this whole week interviewing I think like seven or eight guests in person. It's been such an adventure I'm proud to report that I have now gone to all 50 states, West Virginia I knocked you off the list. We're done, but obviously not done with interviews or ologies

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So right now I'm in Athens, Georgia a few hours ago I had a very great pleasure of being the first guest speaker on the University of Georgia's new lecture series. It was moderated by this very guest that you're about to hear. So I needed a quick encore just so that I could catch up and I'm still bouncing around all over the place.

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And also this deserves a revisit very much. And I nabbed the chance to sit down with this guest again because there is a weather system called El Nino that is already hitting the West Coast and the world this year, 2026, and it is such a whopper. People are pretty freaked out about it and this guest will break

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