Saturday, April 24, 2004
1:00 P.M.
Cleveland National Weather Service Forecast Office
Federal Facilities Building, Second Floor, Room 206
Cleveland, Ohio
(For anyone who has not been to the Cleveland NWS before, the Federal Facilities Building is situated adjacent to the west side of the Cleveland Hopkins Airport property. Prior to this 1:00 p.m. meeting, someone should be by the front door to let you in. If, for any reason, you arrive later than 1:00 p.m. and no one is at the locked front door, please use the phone located to the right of the front door to call the Cleveland NWS and someone will come to let you in).
GUEST SPEAKERS
Chris Mello, Information Technology Officer Cleveland NWS Forecast Office
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Jim Kosarik, Senior Meteorologist, Cleveland NWS Forecast Office
TOPIC
UTILIZATION OF THE CLEVELAND NWS WORKSTATION ETA MODEL AND LAKE EFFECT SNOW
BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKER
Chris Mello serves as the Information Technology Officer at the Cleveland National Weather Service Forecast Office. The Information Technology Officer position National Weather Service offices is a relatively new position and Chris has been at the Cleveland office for a little over a year. He previously worked at the Meteorological Development Lab of the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland. Chris is from Connecticut, land of the nor'easter. Chris has an M.S. degree from the University of Hawaii and did his graduate work in Hawaii.
Jim Kosarik is no stranger to the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the AMS. He has been very active in our chapter. He has been attending NEOCAMS meetings meetings since 1994 and has served as our chapter's Vice President since 2002.
Jim moved to Cleveland to work at the local National Weather Service (NWS) office in 1992 and very much enjoys forecasting th eweather in northeast Ohio. At the Cleveland NWS, Jim has filled the position of forecaster, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist, and in late 1994, was promoted to Senior Meteorologist. He is also the local union steward. Before Cleveland, Jim worked in Washington, D.C. at the NWS headquarters in the software development lab and at the Youngstown-Warren Airport as a meteorologist intern. Before joining the NWS, Jim worked for the Bureau of Land Management as a fire-weather forecaster in Fairbanks, Alaska, and in State College, Pennsylvania at Accu-Weather. Jim has a meteorology degree from Penn State (1983) and has been a member of the AMS since 1980. At Penn State, Jim ran the student weather club in 1983 and was Vice President of the AMS chapter at State College.
DIRECTIONS TO MEETING LOCATION
From Cleveland and the Lakeshore Counties: The easiest way to get to the Cleveland National Weather Service Forecast Office is to take I-480 east or west (depending on where you live in the lakeshore counties) to the Grayton Road exit #9. Head south on Grayton Road a short distance until it dead ends into Brookpark Road. Turn right onto Brookpark Road and move quickly to the left hand lane and be watching for an entranceway in less than 0.2 mile on the left hand side. It is a small access road with a sign beside it that takes you past NASA to the Federal Facilities Building (a two story building), which will be on the left hand side of this access road, with an elevated Doppler Radar dome beside it. Even though a fence follows this access road on the left hand side for its entirety, you will be able to get in the parking lot of the Federal Facilities Building through an open gate along this fence.
From Akron/Canton and Points to the South: Take I-77 north to I-480 west. Head west on I-480 for approximately 10 miles to the Grayton Road exit #9. After exiting onto Grayton Road, head south a short distance and follow the directions under "From Cleveland and the Lakeshore Counties."
From Mansfield, Wooster and Points to the Southwest: Take I-71 north to I-480 west. Head west on I-480 for only 2 miles. Stay in the right hand lane because Grayton Road exit #9 will come up quickly. After exiting onto Gryaton Raod, head south a short distance and follow the directions under "From Cleveland and the Lakeshore Counties."
From Youngstown and Points East: Take either I-76 west to Akron and head north on I-77 or I-80 west (Ohio Turnpike) to I-77 and head north on I-77 to I-480. Take I-480 west for approximately 10 miles to the Grayton Road exit #9 and follow the directions under "From Cleveland and the Lakeshore Counties."