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Although Texas A&M University's Icises.
weather station has no responsibility j Brenton receives information
to the general public to provide from three teletype machines in the
, . , weather forecasts, the weather sta- weather station.
tion participates in Civil Defense More than 700 weather stations
when the Bryan - College Station area i send their data into Kansas City
is under a severe weather watch or ;which, in turn, transmits the infor-
Y ' warning. , mation throughout the United States
During such conditions, the Civil by a computerized communications
Defense volunteers operate Texas system operated by the Federal Avi-
,,. A &M's radar on top of the Oceanog- : ation Agency.
' raphy and Meteorology Tower to I Brenton said 98 percent of his ef-
i ' keep the public and Civil Defense forts end up in classrooms. He
authorities informed. provides information for analysis in
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Charles L. Brenton is in charge of forecasting courses, mainly
,4 it Texas A &M's weather station. The !meteorology 453. Brenton said that
r't weather station, which is on the 12th this course is usually taken by second
floor, is at a good vantage point, ' semester seniors and involves actual
Brenton said. He said that he can see , forecasting. "It provides them with
20 miles in all directions, which an opportunity to put everything to-
�" sometimes allows him to view gether," Brenton said.
' °; weather systems forming. Brenton Brenton and his seven member
, - ` said that on rare occasions the Na- part -time staff mainly prepare maps,
tional Weather Service has called the charts, and thermodynamic dia-
station requesting additional radar grams that are used for meteorology
information to pinpoint a weather labs. He said because of Texas
j formation. A &M's weather station facilities, th.
Brenton is called a practical University's meteorology tour
` i meteorologist. He plots raw data for are not merely textbook and the
Charles L. Brenton is the "practical meteorologist" in charge
of Texas A &M's weather station. He prepares weather infor-
mation that is used in courses on forecasting.