Last night I attended a Basics 1 Skywarn training as a refresher as I hadn't had a class since 2005. The briefer was Greg Schoor, one of the forecasters from the NWS Sterling office. During the first half of the class he mentioned he had graduated from the University of Oklahoma, so at the break I went up and told him my son had attended OU for a couple of years. It turns out he knows several people that my son hung out (and storm chased with) altho' he didn't recognize my son's name. Talk about a small world!
One thing of note that I learned last night is that NWS is setting up a weather radio transmitter on the top of Mary Washington Hospital to provide better coverage in the Fredericksburg area. Right now the closest transmitter is in Manassas and coverage in some of our more rural corners is spotty at best. Hopefully this new site will be operational by springtime and the 2010 chase season.
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