Dan’s Wild Wild Weather Journal

If you’re reading this blog from North Alabama or Tennessee then you have likely never heard of of Dr. Karl.

He is a household name in Austrailia though, and well known to listeners of the BBC as well.

Karl Kruszelnici is one of the smartest people you will ever likely come across. A Phycisist, Medical Doctor, Biologist, and TV Personality all rolled into one. I listen each week as he answers questions about science on BBC Radio 5 Live. I always learn something new.

Dr. Karl makes Science fun & interesting! (Something I try to do every day on TV here in Huntsville-with limited success, I think!)

You can check out his very popular website here at ABC Austrailia.

Doctor Karl is on Thursday morning at 3am London time. That is 9pm Wednesday night in the U.S. Central Time Zone. You can listen live to Radio 5 on the BBC.

Do what I do though, download the podcast of the Up All Night program on BBC Radio 5. I hear it is one of the most popular podcasts online! Click the small image below to get the podcast. (I hope the BBC legal folks don’t mind my grabbing the pic)

On days like yesterday, all a weather guy like me can do is to stay out of the way and offer himself up to run errands. I have never had any journalism classes and my nerdiness has made me think many times, that I would be more suited for a job with NOAA than in TV.

It is truly amazing to see a group of professional producers, reporters and anchors/correspondents take absolute chaos, and turn it into calm and clear reporting.

I know of one reporter who has a young child in school. Just like me, I know that all they wanted to do was to hug their kid yesterday, but you would have never known it on air.

Reporters see a lot of bad things. Some can deal with it, and some (If not many) cannot. They quickly go do something else. I know I could not do it.

So I had an amazing first hand seat yesterday as a superb news gathering team worked non stop for over 12 hours to bring a very sad story to the Tennessee Valley, and the Nation.

Take Care, and give your kids a hug.

Dan