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Eva Jewel Ricciarelli June 17, 1922 - August 30, 2013
Eva passed away peacefully on August 30, 2013 at her home in Fremont, California. She is survived by her loving husband, Rodney, of 39 years, her loving children, Gloria Ice, Linda Ibarra (Jess), Cathy Novello, Janet Kirby, Lynda Myers (Ciro), Douglas Ricciarelli (Kay) and many adoring grandchildren and great grand children. Eva volunteered as a docent for many years at Patterson House at the Ardenwood Historic Farm and at the Shinn Historical Park in Fremont, Ca. She also founded the Friends of Heirloom Flowers Garden Club in Fremont. Interment will be at the Cedar Lawn Memorial Park in Fremont. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her honor to the charity of your choice.
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Weather watchers help government meteorologists AP WIRE SERVICE BY KIMBERLY PRIMICERIO RECORD-JOURNAL OF MERIDEN MERIDEN, Conn. (AP), High-tech radar may provide a good sense of what the day will look like, but radar alone isn’t always good enough. Sometimes weather spotters are needed to help with warnings and to verify radar data. Over 300,000 certified SKYWARN spotters throughout the nation volunteer their time to report severe weather to the National Weather Service. The service, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, established SKYWARN. These are not storm chasers, but volunteers who provide visual evidence and other reports of what’s going on in the sky. Meriden native and Wolcott resident Jay Dobensky received his certification about three years ago and learned how to safely monitor storms. Dobensky, 42, a 1988 Maloney High School graduate, explained that spotters should never be confused with storm chasers. They simply monitor the weather as it happens and report it to the best of their ability to the Weather Service. “As good as meteorology and the NWS is, they still need boots on the ground,’’ Dobensky said. “Technology can’t reach everything ... Things get missed.’’ As a weather fan whose passion for precipitation began as a boy, Dobensky thought he had a pretty good grasp on meteorology. While attending a certification class years ago, Dobensky realized he had a lot to learn. “It really helps you understand the proper forecasting and identification,’’ said Dobensky, a parttime student studying meteorology while he continues his full-time job running an audio/video installation company. He’s known on Twitter and Facebook as “Storm Trooper Jay,’’ which city resident Mark Hughes dubbed Dobensky due to his love of weather. On a recent weeknight, residents from all over the state gathered at the Connecticut Police Academy on Preston Avenue to attend a SKYWARN spotter class. Many of the students were new and excited to learn. Michael Silva, a general forecaster at the NWS in Upton, N.Y., led the class. The Weather Service in Upton serves portions of New
York, New Jersey and all of southern Connecticut. “This is your basic spotter training class,’’ Silva said. “It does not mean you are experienced weather spotters. We give you the tools for what it takes to be a weather spotter.’’ Silva encouraged the class to take the course every three years as a refresher. In the first hour, Silva introduced students to the weather spotter concept. The spotters across the country consist of average residents, truck drivers, pilots, mariners and emergency service personnel, Silva said. They volunteer to call an NWS weather hotline to report notable weather phenomena. When spotting severe weather, Silva told his class of about 40 to remain clam, speak clearly and report all the facts. He then introduced the class to thunderstorms. Severe thunderstorms include hail, wind gusts of about 58 mph and the possibility of a tornado forming. Silva also told his class that lightning can strike up to 30 miles away from the storm. It’s safe to go outside 30 minutes after the last clap of thunder is heard, he said. The second half the class dealt with tornadoes. Using his knowledge of weather and spotting, Dobensky called in hazardous weather in June. He happened to be at the right place at the right time when he began taking pictures of some menacing clouds. He said he uploaded the pictures to his computer and zoomed in on one. Dobensky saw what he thought could have been a tornado. He sent the photos in to the National Weather Service and was told he probably saw a weak funnel cloud near the Waterbury and Wolcott line. “It didn’t touch the ground,’’ Dobensky said. This was on the same day tornadoes came down in the Windsor Locks area. Dobensky said if he didn’t call it in, no one would have ever known the weather happened. “It pushes me to continue this,’’ he said. At the Connecticut Police Academy, Pat Connolly was learning a lot at the spotter class. She is part of her community’s emergency response team in Orange. She said she wanted to become familiar with certain types of weather. “What we do is prepare people for storms,’’ she said. “The more knowledge the better.’’ Information from: Record-Journal, http://www.record-journal.com