Oklahoma forensic meteorologists look backward, not forward
Most meteorologists predict the weather, but Matt Gaffner waits until the storm has passed.
Gaffner, a forensic meteorologist at Weather Decision Technologies in Norman , re-creates weather events that have already occurred.
“It's the exact opposite of what everybody thinks meteorology is,” he said.
Using radar maps, weather data and sometimes unreliable first-hand accounts, Gaffner determi...
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