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Weather Twins
Wed Oct 20, 2004
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Hi, I’m Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. There are almost a million sets of
identical twins across America. But as far as we know, there’s only one set of identical
weather twins. Bob Henson fills us in:
BH: When Brandon and Ryan Holmgren talk about the weather, it’s not because
they’ve just met. The two are identical twins, and that extends to their passion about
the atmosphere. Both Ryan and Brandon graduated in May with degrees in aviation
meteorology from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Brandon: We’ve always really been interested in meteorology, so we decided to
incorporate flying and meteorology into our studies.
Ryan: We kind of figured there’s so many elements of meteorology involved in aviation.
When you’re flying the aircraft, you’re surrounded by meteorology.
BH: The Holmgrens lived in North Carolina and Germany as youngsters. But it was
their teen years in snowy downstate New York that fueled their interest in the
atmosphere. Over the past four years at Florida Tech, they’ve heard plenty of thunder
roll across the Space Coast. So which Holmgren calls the other first when there’s a
storm approaching?
Brandon: I don’t know. It kind of depends. We both have like, you know, the Weather
Bug on our desktop so like yesterday, I like opened it up and I saw really a huge cell
north of us. I asked Ryan, ‘Hey, look at the cell!’
BH: The Holmgrens are both hoping to land jobs in commercial aviation. That means
they’ll most likely be living on their own for the first time.
Ryan: It’s going to be pretty weird because we’ve really basically always lived our
whole lives like really near each other.
Brandon: It’ll probably be weird at first—different--but I’m sure it’ll be fine.
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