Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1948, two meteorologists helped make things safer for those living in the path of severe storms, when they issued the first successful tornado warning. Plus: the Circle Guitar by Anthony Dickens has a rotating sequencer disc that lets the instrument play its own strings.  The Types of Airmasses in Which North American Tornadoes Form (JSTOR)  The First Operational Tornado Forecast Twenty Million to One (American Meteorological Society)  Flash-Tornado Warning! (The Saturday Evening Post via Archive.org)  self-playing electric 'circle guitar' can pick at up to 250 bpm (designboom) Our Patreon backers rock, and you can too when you support our show --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support