Joanne Simpson

       
 Joanne Simpson or Joanne Gerould (her birth name)was born on March 23, 1923. She was the first woman in the United States to get a PHD in Meteorology, her father was a sailor therefore took her sailing on a catboat off Cape rod which led her to be fascinated by clouds, when she attended the University of Chicago Simpson fell inlove with it. Joanne contributed to many areas of the atmospheric sciences, particularly in the field of  Tropical Meteorology. She has researched hot towers, hurricanes, the trade winds, and helped develop the TRMM which stands for Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. The TRMM is important even in todays environment becuase it helpds predict weather and climate. In 1958 she collaborated wth Herbert Reihl which was considered the father of Tropical Meteorology and calculated the average static moist energy and how it varied vertically theoughout the atmosphere. It goes without saying that Joanne Simpson was a very influential and intelligent person but woman really admired her work. Due to the fact that Simpson was the first American woman to receive a PHD in Meteorology this helped other female scientists persue there dreams and also actually give them a chance to work on the scientific field. Around 1966 she became NASA's lead weather researcher also was the director of Project Stormfury while bieng chief of the Environment Satellite Services Administration's Institute for Atmospheric Sciences.

George Hadley

George Hadley

      George Hadley's Hadley Cell Theory was one of the most revolutionary scientific discoveries in toady's modern science. The Hadley Cell explain how atmospheric motions occurs in our atmosphere. Following the law of Convection Currents,  the radiation from the Sun warming up the water by the equator, the warmer water then rises up to the stratosphere and flows upward to the poles. There, the formerly warm water cools down and sinks down and eventually makes its way back to the equator to repeat this process. This is the basic fundamentals of what makes the Hadley Cells work and create our understanding of atmospheric circulation that has now fully developed into what it used today by modern scientist.

Johnstwon Flood 1977

 This flood was catastrophic because 130 million gallons of water flooded the streets of Pennsylvania. The waters carved their own paths through office buildings, factories and apartments. This happened because there were 12 inches of rain in 10 hours, and this means that there were storms back to back. This caused dams to overflow and eventually break. The people of Pennsylvania were extremely mad because the dams have daily checks and inspections and they all came black clean. After the flooding there was $300 million in damage and 84 deaths. This might've been avoided if the inspectors did a better job, but because 5 dams broke this led to better reinforcements on the bottom of the dams all around Pennsylvania. 100's of people were left homeless and they no longer had jobs. It took Pennsylvania years to get Cambria County back to its original state.

Super Outbreak April 3-4 1974

On April 3-4 of 1974 in just 18 hours 148 struck 13 states. This included 23 F4  and 7 F5 tornadoes. What caused these storms to produce so much damage was the low pressure moving from the west towards the east. The warm moist air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico got met the low pressure in the lower Mid West. The states impacted from this cluster of storms were states in the Mississippi Valley, the Southeast, and the Midwest. This tornado outbreak was an unprecedented event and unique in its destruction. These tornadoes caused over 3.5 $billion in damage, which claimed 310 lives and left nearly 5,500 people injured. This event was such a devastation to the impact impacted was because of the lack of information given to the people to prepare. This was simply because the technology was not were it is today. People found out a couple minutes before impact which had a minimal effect on their safety. This event forced meteorologist to advance their technology to prevent this horrid event from ever happening again.

  

Jim Cantore

Jim Cantore

Jim Cantore is one of the most successful and influential Meteorologist in todays society. Jim was born in Connecticut but raised in Vermont. He attended Lyndon Sate College in Vermont and studied meteorology. As soon as he graduated college, The Weather Channel offered him an internship in 1986. He started his career there developing the Fall Foliage. After some years he started to do live reports of the weather. He would report the weather for severe hurricanes such as Katrina, Irene, and Sandy. He also reported the weather before many main events such as PGA Tournaments, NFL games, the Olympics, and The Winter X-Games. He also narrates the series Storm Stories and the Local On the 8s. Throughout his long and successful career, he became a member of the National Weather Association and he also became a member of the American Meteorological Society. Jim Cantore has received the NOAA award in 2002 for his excellence in using satellite technology. Jim was mostly known for his skill of translating hard to understand weather information into everyday spoken language. He is a legend in live broadcasting. Jim's most viral video was when he was attacked during a live report and he just kneed him away. The most impressive part is that Jim didn't even take a pause in his sentences. Jim Cantore is still to this day a great live reporter and he will be to the day he stops working.