Published on: December 12, 2006 at 6:25 AM

Episode 46 of WeatherBrains, our weekly 30 minute podcast is available on the web, and on iTunes.

In this week’s episode:

-A WeatherBrains Extra: “The Tropics: Looking Back and Ahead” … Colorado State University’s Dr. William Gray outlines his predictions for the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season and why the 2006 season didn’t turn out as first expected;

-“We’ve been brainwashed” — Dr. Gray comments on manmade global warming, and he reacts to former Vice President Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth”

-Pattern flip: James Spann explains why Alabama residents get to enjoy spring-like weather for middle December;

-Brian Peters checks in from along the northwest Florida coast;

-Looking up north, J. B. Elliott says no extremely cold air is in the immediate future for Alabama;

-James reveals a change coming to ABC 33/40’s on-air staff;

-This Week in Weather History: Bill Murray and James recall the December, 2000, Tuscaloosa Tornado, the first such storm to be caught live on an ABC 33/40 TowerCam;

Join James Spann, J. B. Elliott, Brian Peters, Bill Murray and David Black…