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STORMcast Discussion 2025-007
Issued: 13Jun25
Time: 0830 EDT
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Good morning everyone. About 25 years ago (I really don't remember exactly when), I started sending out periodic emails about upcoming weather events to a few close colleagues at Upper Dublin to assist in making weather-sensitive decisions. Most of the recipients were coaches who had practices and games to plan for like I did but slowly, the FWD button was used more and more and the STORMcasts began to extend far beyond the boundaries of UDHS.
When the Internet and more recently social media took hold, it became obvious that these were the venues to use to spread my somewhat unorthodox forecasts to the ever increasing number of individuals and school districts that wanted to be part of a distribution list so the casts were added to GeoChief and from there spread like a well intentioned virus. Today, I know it reaches several states, more than a dozen school districts and hundreds of individuals.
It's definitely been a labor of love and at times quite difficult to keep up with while also trying to teach but I've never lost the enjoyment experienced when someone would send a quick email just to say something like "I can hear your voice in this"!
Now, as many of you know, I am retiring from Upper Dublin and this STORMcast is really one of the last official things I need to do today to tie up an incredible 32 year career in public education. Like any career, it has had its ups and downs but overall, I'm truly grateful to Upper Dublin and all of my colleagues who helped drive me forward to create some of the only science curricula of their kind in Pennsylvania and I am wholeheartedly looking forward to carrying those lessons into the next phase of my educational career in Montana when I begin my year-round work with the Elevation Science Institute (the dinosaur people). I am looking forward to being able to watch the incoming "ridge runner" supercells from the Beartooth Range rumble across the Bighorn Basin to drop damaging hail on the roof of my new house with ever growing enthusiasm. Snow in October also sounds downright enchanting. I've just got to find a spot in the yard for the weather station...
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Thank you all again for the support shown through the years and I wish all of you a safe, weather wiser future.
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Sincerely,
rs
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NWS advisory map as of STORMcast issuance time.
(Map courtesy of the NWS)
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