Ep 227: Derek Van Dam, CNN Weatherman on Weather and Wine

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Famous CNN weatherman and meteorologist, Derek Van Dam, comes on to school us about how weather and climate work and we discusstheir effects on vineyards and regions the world 'round. A fun, lively show with a great friend and smart guy!

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Here are some of the topics we discuss:

1. The difference between weather and climate

2. What is climate change? How many years of data do we use to predict or confirm it? What is climate change doing to places that grow wine grapes:

Australia
South Africa
California
And on the flip side: the UK

3. Given that the climate seems to be heating up the world, what new regions of the world could be suitable for agriculture/viticulture that weren’t previously?

4. Is there ANY validity to the affect of lunar cycles on the land/agriculture (a la biodynamic philosophy)?

5. What do you think about the Farmer’s Almanac and other long-term prediction tools for weather? How far in advance can you actually tell what’s going to happen with weather?

6. What is the jet stream?

7. What are the effects of fog, wind, ocean currents, hail, La Niña and El Niño?

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:24.5	I can't believe our stroke of lock today.
0:26.5	We have the famous DVD, Derek Van Dam,
0:32.3	CNN meteorologist
0:35.0	That's what my friends call me by the way DVD
0:38.0	We should all call you TV.
0:39.0	You are my friends.
0:40.0	I know we researched that we know. We already we've been cyber stocking you even though we know you
0:45.8	so I think that that is that's not true because it was like a year after you moved in the neighborhood.
0:53.2	Oh, we had no idea what you said.
0:54.8	You know what you said?
0:56.1	You said, yeah, well, I worked kind of odd hours.
0:58.2	That's what you said.
0:59.2	And then somebody was a drug dealer.
1:01.1	We really didn't.
1:04.0	Roll it out at 11 to record.
1:06.0	We did not.
1:08.0	D'Nuelet House.
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