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Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow and after, boy about two thousand weather notebook shows this is my last one as host. And I'm joined today by the new host of The Weather Notebook, Bryan Yeaton. Bryan Welcome.

Bryan: Thanks Dave.

Dave: Well I understand that you have a few parting questions for me today Bryan.

Bryan: I certainly do Dave. The thing that I have always wanted to ask you is, what is you're most memorable weather event? Would you tell us?

Dave: I think definitely it was the blizzard of 1978 and I was growing up and in high school I guess outside of Boston, Massachusetts and there was variably from between three to five feet of snow that paralyzed the city and I just remember the remarkable change in landscape and the change in the way that people connected with each other. Great time.

Bryan: Now, out of all the two thousand or more shows that you did is there one that stands out more distinctly in your mind and why?

Dave: Yeah, there's definitely one that stands out in my mind about chickens. About how this guy blasted a chicken, a dead chicken, out of a cannon to see the effects of the windspeed as it hit its feathers. This was because people noticed that after tornadoes chickens would have their feathers plucked so they thought that a chickenometer or something would be a good way to measure the windspeed. So, we kind of reenacted that, only through sound of course, we didn't have a real chicken. But that was something I never thought I'd be doing.

Bryan: Well we'd also like to thank you Dave for eight great years at The Weather Notebook and there are some pretty big shoes to fill, but we're all excited and we thank you for giving us the opportunity to continue what you started.

Dave: Well, thank you Bryan and I'm glad that it's going into your hands. I think that it's going to be a great continuation of a long history.

Bryan: And for the last time do you want to do the credits.

Dave: Oh sure, sure. Thanks everybody. The Weather Notebook is a production of the Mount Washington Observatory and it is supported generously by Subaru and the National Science Foundation.