Here is a link to Kim Hoogewinde's NCAR presentation at the SCAMS meeting for those who want to view it again, or for those who may have missed it. This is just one example of what you can do in meteorology. Kim has spent alot of time studying and working hard in her classes to get accepted to NCAR's summer workshop. Hard work does pay off!! She will also be giving a research presentation at the National Weather Association Annual meeting in Louisville,Ky.

Congrats Kim!! 

Kim's Presentation   

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By MEGHAN BARR The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — High winds from Hurricane Ike left about 1 million households and businesses without electricity Monday as schools closed and rush-hour commuters faced obstacle courses of fallen trees and intersections without working traffic signals. The wind storm on Sunday killed at least three people who were hit by toppled trees, authorities said. It could take a week for power to be restored in some areas. Winds gusting up to 78 mph ripped roofs from buildings and blocked roadways across the state, with southwest and central Ohio bearing the brunt of the storm's force, according to the National Weather Service.

"What we experienced was a hurricane-force wind gust," said meteorologist Myron Padgett at the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

A falling tree killed two motorcyclists in Hueston Woods State Park in southwest Ohio, and a woman died in the Cincinnati suburb of Mt. Healthy when a tree fell through the roof of her home. As of 8 a.m. Monday, 575,000 Duke Energy customers in southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky still had no power, out of 867,000 who had lost service since the storm began to hit the region late Sunday morning. It was the biggest outage in the company's history, said Duke Energy spokeswoman Kathy Meinke. American Electric Power said on its Web site Monday that about 539,000 of its Ohio customers, or 37 percent, were out, including 273,000 in Franklin County, which includes Columbus. "This is an unprecedented event for this time of year," AEP spokesman Jeff Rennie said. "We've never seen anything like this in early fall." Both Duke and AEP said it could take more than a week to restore power to some hard-hit areas. AEP is recalling crews that had been dispatched to southern states hit by the hurricane. About 310,000 Ohio Edison customers were in the dark in northeast Ohio, said spokeswoman Robin Patton.