#135 SFFP - Jill Gilardi - Sasquatch and a Unicorn

In This Episode

• Guest: Jill Gilardi, Meteorologist at WBRC-TV Birmingham


• Special Appearances: Tim Bacca, Storm Photographer of the Year and Scott Peake, Storm Photograph Winner of the Year


• Tracker Chat - Audio Diary Live during Hurricane Dorian


• Lightning Round: Will My Pet Kill Me?


• 5% Discount at Helicity.co/sff


• #weatherfools - We present the fools doing stupid things in weather situations


• Wx Resources - We share some great web sites, apps, equipment and other great weather resources you'll want to use


• Wasted Weather - We dig through the dark web to find the discarded clips of our weather friends in the bag


• Reveal of our next guest…

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Storm Photos of the Year

• Tim Bacca - tim_bacca-photography on Instagram and timbacaweather on Twitter


• Scott Peake - scottpeakewx on Twitter and YouTube Channel

 Our Guest

Jill Gilardi, Meteorologist WBRC-TV, Birmingham

Jill Gilardi joined WBRC in 2013. She has nearly 15+ years of experience as a broadcast meteorologist, serving audiences in St. Joseph and Springfield, Missouri as well as Omaha, Nebraska.  She started storm chasing in 2008 and even worked for a storm chasing company called Extreme Chase Tours.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in meteorology at Lyndon State College in Vermont.  One of the toughest TV days for Jill was May 22, 2011, the day of the Joplin EF5.

Follow Jill on Twitter - @jillgilardi

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#weatherfools Links:

• Phil - Fenway Park Lightning and Thunderstorm


• Phil - Too Close Czech Republic Tornado


• Phil - Video of SUV being Struck by Lightning


• MJ - Turn Around Don't Drown Video


• MJ - Lightning in a Pool

Wx Resources:

• Phil - Hurricane Tracker App


• Jen - Aviationweather.gov


• Scott - GoPro Camera

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Next Episode we will be joined by storm chaser of the Tornado Titans, Brandon Sullivan.  Recording live for Patreon.com/stormfrontfreaks members on Thursday, July 22nd at 9pmET/8pmCT and available on all podcast players the following Sunday.

Credits

• Opening Music: Brett Epstein


• Closing Music: Gabe Cox


• Other Music: “Pecos Hank” Schyma from El Reno Blues