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Podcast: People In The Know
Episode: Forecasting Weather--Fighting Bureaucracy - Mike Smith
Description: In 1981, Mike Smith founded a private weather forecasting service that soon became computer based in its single location forecast distribution. He enjoyed strong popularity as a television meteorologist beginning in the 1970's at Channel 4 in Oklahoma City, then Wichita, Kansas, St. Louis and back to Wichita where he started Weatherdata. Â
Smith testified, as an expert witness, in a trial following the crash of United Flight 191 at DFW Airport in the 1980's. The plane flew through a small thunderstorm that produced a strong downburst and pushed the airplane into the ground. His accounting of the events explaining what happe...