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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Director for the National Hurricane Center: Ken Graham
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/new-director-national-hurricane-center-ken-graham<snip>
NOAA announced on Thursday that Kenneth Graham, meteorologist-in-charge of the New Orleans/Baton Rouge office of the National Weather Service (NWS), will be the next director of the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center (NHC). Graham will take his new post on April 1, succeeding acting director Ed Rappaport.
Graham has deep roots in the Gulf Coast states. He joined NOAA in 1994 after working as a broadcast meteorologist at WCBI (Columbus, MS). Before moving to the New Orleans area, he served as meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS offices in Birmingham, AL, and Corpus Christi, TX, and headed the systems operations division of the NWS Southern Region in Fort Worth, TX, where he led the agencys recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina.
While stationed in the New Orleans area, Graham led the effort to provide innovative meteorological support for two command centers following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helping authorities to make crucial decisions in the months following the spill. During Grahams tenure at NWS New Orleans/Baton Rouge, the office developed SWERV (Significant Weather Emergency Response Vehicle)the NWSs first mobile command incident response vehicleas part of a pilot project for the Weather-Ready Nation initiative.
"Ken Graham has done a wonderful job serving those of us along the central Gulf Coast, said Jim Waskom, executive director of the Louisiana Governors Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, in an email. His passion for his job is second to none. Ken is always available to discuss and explain sometimes highly technical weather information needed to make critical emergency management decisions. While we are losing a great resource here in the state, everyone will benefit having Ken in his new role at the hurricane center. We look forward to working with him more in the future."
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New Director for the National Hurricane Center: Ken Graham (Original Post)
malaise
Mar 2018
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mcar
(42,278 posts)1. Wait, you mean someone with experience?
malaise
(268,678 posts)4. After last year he had no choice
The experts like Graham - that is good news.
mcar
(42,278 posts)5. I dunno, malaise
Who's the weatherman on Fox? Do they even do weather?
malaise
(268,678 posts)6. I am the last person to ask
We never watch Fox. We didn't have Fox until recently. The jackasses replaced CSpan with Fox. We don't plan to watch.
mcar
(42,278 posts)7. A climate change denier?
He's appointing a sane person. PR is still in the dark, he obv doesn't give a shite about natural disasters.
One presumes he is unaware of this appointment.
I would not be surprised - he won;t give a shit about disasters until that garish crap in Florida takes a direct hit from a Cat 5.
nolabear
(41,932 posts)2. He might actually be a great choice.
The job is getting harder all the time as the climate changes and regulations go to hell in a bucket.
dhol82
(9,352 posts)3. Impressive!
Someone competent was actually installed
Amazing!