00:01 - From the band family studios in the department of

00:04 - meteorology and atmospheric science at penn state

00:08 - this

00:08 - is whether world.

00:21 - Evening and welcome to why the world is Tuesday may fifth twenty twenty six I'm your

00:25 - much balder host now Luke snyder joined by our forecaster Marissa verger now

00:29 - arisen we had a great start the finals week weather here

00:31 - penn state but it's looking like it'll be a little bit more on the website

00:33 - more about that yeah a cold front is approaching the state bringing with it some

00:37 - heavy rain that we're going to be dealing with in the

00:39 - west mainly overnight pushing into the east tomorrow

00:42 - but it's much needed and parts of Pennsylvania obsolete we'll hear more from her

00:45 - forecast in just a moment later on the show this evening

00:48 - as well later on tonight with a couple of features

00:49 - when the rest of broadcast here at while the world

00:51 - at first we have Marissa with a forecast.

00:53 - Thanks Luke and I want to point out that this morning there were a few rain showers

00:57 - earlier today and that actually created a beautiful sight in Dubois at seven fifteen

01:02 - this morning you can see this gorgeous rainbow that was captured

01:06 - by our

01:06 - Pennsylvania environmental

01:08 - maisonette network

01:09 - environmental network

01:11 - camera and what's neat about this is that in the morning

01:14 - you can only see rainbows

01:16 - in the west because the sun rises in the east and you need the sun behind you to see

01:19 - a rainbow so this was a really cool site that was captured

01:22 - by the camera this morning

01:23 - and then as we went through the day we had some

01:26 - sunshine but then the clouds started rolling in

01:28 - becoming thicker especially across western Pennsylvania this afternoon of few showers

01:32 - and those are continuing ahead of this cold front you can see a few scattered showers

01:36 - across parts of north central Pennsylvania

01:38 - the heaviest and steadiest rain now

01:40 - across lake erie but that's going to be pushing

01:42 - eastward as we go through the overnight hours

01:44 - and that heavy steady rain will be

01:47 - moving across the northwest plateau as we go into the evening hours

01:50 - we also have some very gusty winds coming out of the southwest gusting over thirty

01:55 - five miles per hour in many places and that's ushering in some warmer winds

01:58 - want to point out the wind direction in erie you can see it here coming out of the

02:02 - west that's over the open water water temperature there are only fifty one degrees

02:06 - and that's why erie's a little bit on the chillier

02:08 - side this afternoon only getting to fifty eight

02:10 - whereas everyone else getting into the middle sixties across the northwest

02:14 - middle eighties ahead of the frontier in southeastern Pennsylvania

02:18 - that's going to be a bit of a distant memory tomorrow

02:20 - as the front moves through and brings in cooler air

02:22 - and we can see where the front is quite well on this temperature map across the

02:27 - lower forty eight will get this seventy seven

02:29 - and Nashville ahead of the front only forty seven

02:32 - in st Louis just behind the front and this is going to continue

02:35 - to progress eastward as we go through the overnight

02:37 - hours so cooler air is on it's way to Pennsylvania

02:40 - not only cooler air but again

02:42 - rainfall and some of it is going to be heavy at times

02:44 - during the overnight hours across western Pennsylvania

02:47 - can see a lot of that now here across Northwestern Ohio

02:50 - again

02:51 - that'll be good news when it moves into

02:53 - southeastern Pennsylvania tonight into tomorrow

02:55 - because we desperately need the rain there

02:58 - so here's the cold front and we have a few areas of low pressure

03:01 - along that front and that's going to slide through tonight

03:04 - into tomorrow the heavy rain arriving in eastern Pennsylvania tomorrow morning

03:08 - but by tomorrow night

03:09 - it has moved off shore we just have a few showers behind it and then on Thursday will

03:14 - actually have a mix of clouds and sun

03:16 - just a few spotty showers on Thursday I think the big

03:18 - difference Thursday is that you're going to notice

03:20 - that it's much cooler outside

03:22 - so let's time out the rainfall as we go through tonight here comes the front the

03:26 - heavier rain moving into the northwest plateau this evening

03:29 - and into the central mountains by midnight

03:31 - tomorrow morning I'm

03:33 - starting to dry out across the northwest heavy rain across

03:35 - central Pennsylvania moving into eastern Pennsylvania

03:38 - and then it all slides eastward by tomorrow evening

03:41 - leaving behind it just a few spotty showers

03:43 - clear out a little bit on Thursday and then just a few

03:46 - clouds and a few spotty showers but all in all a much more dry day in store but

03:51 - when all is said and done many places will pick up

03:53 - at least a half an inch of rainfall across

03:55 - parts of the southeast where it's much needed

03:58 - half an inch across Northwestern Pennsylvania and some

04:00 - places in between oh about a quarter of an inch of rain

04:02 - so tonight as the front approaches that rain is going to

04:05 - be heavy at times across parts of the northwest plateau

04:07 - pushing into north central and south western Pennsylvania by midnight

04:11 - staying dry across eastern Pennsylvania just having those increasing clouds but

04:15 - low temperatures on the warm side tonight

04:17 - tomorrow as that front moves in we're going to see

04:19 - the heavy rain and in the morning across the northwest

04:22 - it ends mid day across central Pennsylvania and

04:24 - continues through a good part of the daytime hours

04:27 - in eastern Pennsylvania I think pushing out by the evening

04:30 - still warm ahead of the front but then a much cooler day in store you're on Thursday

04:34 - where we'll have a mix of sun and some clouds just a few spotty showers

04:38 - not awash out what we're going to notice is

04:40 - that temperatures are going to be much cooler

04:42 - only into the fifties and middle sixties been

04:44 - records up next with a weather water cooler.

05:14 - Yeah for

05:22 - our department has a massive network of alumni and this segment is our opportunity to

05:27 - catch up with them and what they've been doing

05:30 - and in some cases introduced them

05:32 - to you

05:33 - our guest tonight on the weather water cooler is dr Bianca buyer

05:37 - a physical scientist with noaa and a twenty sixteen phd graduate

05:42 - of our department welcome to weather world Bianca thank you it's great to be here

05:45 - it's good to have you here so before we get into what you're doing now can you give

05:49 - us the quick readers digest version of everything you've been up to

05:53 - since you graduated from here in two thousand and sixteen

05:55 - sure well I've been

05:57 - a little bit busy.

05:59 - Starting in two thousand and sixteen I started working for.

06:02 - Noah's.

06:03 - Global monitoring laboratory in Boulder Colorado

06:06 - I worked for their cooperative institute as a no affiliate

06:09 - and as a postdoc

06:11 - and

06:11 - and that post doc was actually Lee.

06:14 - Collecting air samples.

06:16 - For

06:17 - a NASA sponsored field campaign that

06:19 - Ken Davis actually lead

06:21 - and who is a faculty member here in the department and.

06:26 - I worked on

06:27 - that postdoc for

06:28 - two years and then after that I started delving into some balloon research at.

06:34 - No one knows global monitoring laboratory

06:36 - and.

06:37 - I

06:38 - Got myself into a research scientist position there

06:41 - in around twenty eighteen

06:43 - and front of twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two I led a balloon

06:46 - program

06:47 - with them

06:48 - and then starting in two thousand and twenty two I became a fiscal

06:52 - federal scientist

06:53 - on the

06:54 - on the newest side of things

06:55 - so I now.

06:57 - At

06:58 - Work as a federal scientist

06:59 - okay so you mentioned it a few times

07:02 - the global monitoring lab or I think as you affectionately refer to a gm.

07:07 - I have a feeling a lot of our viewers have never heard of that before can you just

07:11 - explain a little bit about what gml is his and the kinds of missions that it has what

07:16 - is what is the purpose of it yeah so

07:18 - gm ls mission

07:20 - is to

07:21 - monitor

07:22 - atmospheric composition in a way that we can understand

07:26 - change and trends of

07:30 - in the atmosphere over long periods of time

07:33 - so

07:34 - Gml measures

07:36 - aerosols

07:37 - trace gases in the atmosphere

07:40 - clouds radiation we monitor stratospheric ozone depletion

07:44 - on

07:45 - Gmo tracks all of these things pertaining to.

07:48 - How atmospheric composition is changing over time.

07:51 - It's actually very fitting I think we what you're doing because I

07:55 - bianco was the

07:57 - t a when I took medio for thirty six year which was

08:00 - the radiation and climate class so this all seems

08:03 - seems like you took a very fitting pattern.

08:05 - So

08:06 - In addition to roles like you have at gml

08:09 - what are some of the other.

08:12 - Disciplines of other saya ntis working there is it all

08:16 - meteorologists are their various disciplines or different types of scientists that

08:21 - are that are part of this mission

08:22 - oh of course we have a

08:24 - variety of different types of scientists within gmo

08:28 - and not only scientists but engineers and technicians

08:33 - because gmo

08:34 - the monitors

08:35 - and all of these.

08:38 - Species relating to atmospheric composition

08:41 - we have a bunch of people that work with instrumentation

08:45 - and so we have engineers who maintain her and she instrumentation where we take

08:51 - samples of air.

08:53 - All around the world we have

08:54 - citizen scientists that work with us

08:57 - we have atmospheric scientists physicists

09:00 - and

09:00 - biologists

09:02 - we have environmental scientists just a whole bunch of different

09:05 - disciplines

09:06 - lot of a lot of backgrounds and I

09:09 - think one of the mission statements is taking the pulse of the planet and so I guess

09:13 - you need all those different disciplines to be able to take the pulse of the planet.

09:17 - So you alluded to this a little bit ago but

09:19 - you're also looking

09:21 - with some of the work you do it's not of course

09:23 - just what's going on down here at the ground but

09:25 - but all the way up above our heads too.

09:28 - Can you I guess

09:29 - touch on what what a day might

09:31 - might look like for you you know what kinds of things are you looking at what kind

09:35 - kinds of tools might you be what you'd be using yeah

09:38 - so I.

09:39 - I

09:39 - Kind of have to I wear two hats within our global monitoring laboratory I am

09:44 - and a deputy division lead for

09:46 - technology transfers and engineering

09:49 - division

09:50 - where we

09:51 - are developing

09:52 - new technologies methodologies plat forms for

09:56 - measuring atmospheric at it for monitoring and measuring atmospheric species

10:02 - and

10:02 - and so.

10:04 - Is

10:04 - A lot of my work involves

10:06 - overseeing

10:07 - the development of of

10:09 - these platforms methodologies instrumentation.

10:13 - That we will

10:14 - develop in

10:15 - two routine

10:16 - operations with the

10:18 - laboratory and the other hat that I wear within gml is

10:23 - I am a principal investigator of a

10:25 - balloon

10:26 - program.

10:27 - That measures atmospheric composition from the

10:29 - surface all the way to the stratosphere so.

10:33 - On a typical day I might be in the office or I might be out outside and right up

10:37 - against the flat irons launching a balloon and then

10:41 - chasing that balloon and bringing it back to our laboratory

10:43 - oh

10:43 - Yeah from my time living in Colorado it's a beautiful area too so if you're out in

10:47 - the field there's there's probably not many better places to remind yourself

10:51 - we're running low on time but we always like

10:52 - to close this segment by asking our guest

10:55 - do you have a favor that memory from your time

10:57 - in happy valley or your time here at penn state.

11:00 - Oh I have so many memories.

11:03 - Let's see I'm at

11:05 - you know I love penn state

11:06 - during this time of the year the spring time it's beautiful

11:10 - the campus is beautiful I am a state college native so I

11:14 - admire derry was always a favorite of mine

11:17 - and then

11:18 - you know a lot of.

11:20 - A lot of good memories came from just being within this

11:23 - department and the college of earth and mineral sciences the

11:27 - camaraderie and the

11:28 - the

11:29 - the.

11:30 - Passion for atmospheric science within this department is

11:34 - amazing.

11:35 - I think all of all of us would would echo that statement as well

11:38 - alright so thank you for joining us tonight dr Bianca buyer physical scientist with

11:42 - noaa and a twenty sixteen phd graduate

11:45 - from our department thanks for being here thank you

11:48 - and we will be back in just a moment

11:49 - with more.

11:51 - As.

12:01 - A cold front pushing towards the state is going to be bringing some heavy rain into

12:05 - the region this evening arriving in Northwestern Pennsylvania this evening

12:08 - pushing eastward to the central mountains and

12:10 - southwestern Pennsylvania by about midnight

12:13 - eastern pa I think you're just going to see increasing clouds night very mild night

12:17 - as well but that rain will push eastward

12:20 - throughout the overnight hours into tomorrow morning

12:23 - ending early in the morning across the west and then just

12:25 - leaving behind a few spotty showers central Pennsylvania

12:28 - you'll have steady rain for the morning commute but then that should end midday

12:32 - eastern Pennsylvania the rain will begin around sunrise

12:35 - will be heavy throughout the morning hours and then I think by the afternoon hours

12:39 - will push eastward highs still above average in many places

12:43 - much cooler though on Thursday behind the front will

12:45 - have a mix of sun and clouds just a few spotty showers

12:48 - not a wash out but just keep an eye to the sky because we could have a few raindrops

12:53 - but a cooler day in store for the region on Thursday and Luke

12:57 - you have exciting news this Saturday you're going to be graduating very much so we're

13:01 - excited for you tell us what the plan is and

13:03 - I'm very very excited as well as a right now

13:06 - we're taking some time off doing some soul searching as I've been telling everyone

13:09 - finding my sparkle is used to lovingly put it yesterday I love about but yeah going

13:13 - to be looking for jobs just kind of seeing where the wind takes me can be traveling

13:15 - as much as I can visiting friends so

13:17 - it's scary not gonna lie but I'm excited to see where I end up I know

13:21 - meteorology

13:22 - department you've been phenomenal work these past few years and I know you'll be

13:24 - supporting me every step of the way well it's been very fun knowing you and we wish

13:28 - you all the luck in the world thank you so much us I appreciate it

13:30 - join us tomorrow for excited otherwise I missed that from other world.