Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) Encore with Marshall Shepherd

About this episode

Bomb cyclones! Polar vortices! Atmospheric rivers! And rained out barbecues. One of the world’s leading Meteorologists, Dr. Marshall Shepherd – a former NASA scientist and current Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia – is here to field a downpour of questions. We chat about percentages in forecasts, hail, sleet, storm chasing, heatwaves, fluid dynamics, TV weather people, climate change delayism and his favorite weather-themed movies. Also: what not to do with a weather balloon. Visit Dr. Shepherd’s website and follow him on Instagram , TikTok , and Bluesky Listen to his podcast Weather Geeks A donation went to the Institute for Sustainable Communities More episode sources and links Other episodes you may enjoy: Tempestology (HURRICANES) , Fulminology (LIGHTNING) , Nephology (CLOUDS) , Snow Hydrology (SNOW/AVALANCHES) , Cryoseismology (ICEQUAKES) , Astrobiology (ALIENS) , Oceanology (OCEANS) , Phenology (FALL/SEASONS) , Spesh Ep: Drawdown Design Project 400+ Ologies episodes sorted by topic Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes! Follow Ologies on Instagram and Bluesky Follow Alie Ward on Instagram and TikTok Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and engineering by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media Managing Director: Susan Hale Scheduling Producer: Noel Dilworth Transcripts by Aveline Malek Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.