50% Chance of Rain and Other Weather Mysteries Explained | Meteorologist Dan Reilly

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Meteorologist Dan Reilly answers all your burning questions about weather, hurricanes, and how forecasting works. What does a 50% chance of rain actually mean? How do weather patterns in the Pacific, like El Niño and La Niña, affect hurricane formation in the Atlantic? Can a butterfly’s wings cause a tornado? Where do storms get their names? All that and much more in just 30 minutes.

Dan Reilly is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He received his Master’s degree in Meteorology from MIT. Follow him on X at @DReillyWx.

Website resources mentioned in this episode:

Weather.gov

Hurricanes.gov

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.
0:04.2	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast.
0:10.1	For insights into the issues.
0:11.5	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all,
0:14.2	in-depth discussions, breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold, we hold these truths.
0:20.1	We hold these truths.
0:21.2	With Dan Krenshaw.
0:22.1	The eagle has landed.
0:24.0	Welcome back everybody. Best podcast ever.
0:26.0	Give us five stars please.
0:28.0	Today we're going to talk about hurricanes and weather because especially if you're one of my Texas constituents, you know, we have a lot of weather and this has been described as
0:36.4	potentially one of the worst hurricane seasons, you know, at least a relatively worse than past seasons
0:43.2	and we've already had some weather, to say the least,
0:46.4	and in the Houston area, some flooding,
0:49.2	some crazy windstorms.
0:50.8	And so people are probably curious what's in store for the future. So today we have
0:55.7	Dan Riley as a lead meteorologist from a National Weather Service. Joining me to tell me
1:00.5	tell us how do they predict tropical storms, and coordinate with other agencies to actually prepare for these kind of disasters
1:07.9	Again, this is a huge topic in Houston ever since 2017 hurricane Harvey second cost second costliest hurricane in U.S. history, just behind Hurricane Katrina.
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