Session 1 |
| | American Weather History |
| 9:50 AM | 1.1 | From Sailing Ships to the Internet
George A. Winterling, WJXT TV, Jacksonville, FL |
| 10:05 AM | 1.2 | How the weather affected key events during the American Revolution
Elliot Abrams, Accuweather, Inc., State College, PA |
| 10:20 AM | 1.3 | A look at the "Saxby Gale" of October 1869
Joseph M. Rao, Cablevision/News 12 Westchester, Yonkers, NY |
| 10:35 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 1.4 | THE Storm of the Century: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI |
| 11:15 AM | 1.5 | Weather services in Canada and the United States—130 years of cooperation - a model for international meteorology
David W. Phillips, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 11:30 AM | 1.6 | History of commercial sector weather innovation
Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
| 11:45 AM | 1.7 | Hurricane Andrew—10 Years Later
Bryan Norcross, WFOR/CBS-TV, Miami, FL |
| 12:00 PM | 1.8 | Virgina's Early Weather History: "Postcasting" Conditions Prior to the Official Records
Dennis Blanton, Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA |
| 12:15 PM | 1.9 | They Taught the World to Fly—The Wright Brothers North Carolina Experience
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 12:30 PM | | Lunch Break
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