a little about me

Just thought i would post a little about me in this blog since there is no  weather of note going on i thought i havent keept this blog up at all sorry for that i know i should so i am posting a bit about me

 when i was young i was inspired by  Astronaut Neil Armstrong and when NASA opened a program for a student Resentative for all schools through out the US in the Astronaut corps i applied and after me and my back up where selected the program was cancled and well it left me and my back up and i got the chance to fly as payload specalist but i moved up the ranks  to shuttle commander and i commanded a few missions  before i  took Early Retirement on 1/28/1986  you all remember that day  the shuttle challenger blew up and thats when i retrired from NASA. I was a hands on commander always  getting in the pit where the boosters are made and processed and such and i was always into inspecting  the boosters that we used post flight and i would talk to the engineers about problems and they whould show me  the problem with the O rings and i didn't like it but i knew the back up rings would seal but they said the night of 1-27 to 1-28  durring the confrence call to wait and not launch till temperature was above 40 and Nasa Administrators Decided to ignore the advise and you know what happen that day i  resigned or retired from the corps. though they wanted me to come back i said i will not be a part of an agency that  has a blatent disreguard for astronaut safety. and i meant it .


 As a Astronaut i worked with meteorologists to develop the Earth Meteorolgical Experiment shuttle pallet  experiment package and we tested new things  in order to see  precipitation from space we had to scan in 2 modes  horizontal and vertical and  the program was written for that and   it flew many times and returned good data and  we discovered it had use on the ground in Weather Radar applications thats when the NOAA office of atmosphereic research took over  and they developed it as a add on program to the Weather  Survailance Radar 88 Doppler or WSR88D its called Duel Polerazation and it makes  the distiction between snow and rain  easyer to tell and hail as well as tornadic debris clouds in storms. and it picks up other things like birds and bugs  because of their Dual Pol signiture we know they are not rain but  biologic objects.


Neil Armstorng Spoke at my graduating class of astronaut canidates  and  mingled with them and had photos taken with them and signed autographs he was a very humble man he didn't want the fame thrust on him  he was doing a job that he was trained to do and serving his country after the airforce  It was a pleasure to know such a man like neil  and call him a friend  so when he died i was kinda shocked and  i stated remmebering what he said at the graduation  in Houston  at Johnson space center.

 When i retired i was 19 years old i know that's young i went to college at the university of connetticut and studied meteorology and went all the way to get my doctorate in meteorology and  after working with the NWS and i still do  work for them at a New Weather Forecast office i am the Meteoroligist in charge of the office and i am also a sky warn  spotter for the  fellow office in the area the NWS Sterling VA  and i work with NASA as a Research Meteorlogist and  thats what i have been doing since graduation at age 25  with my masters of science degree andthen on to doctoral school  and completeing my doctoral thesis age 28 and graduation shortly there after . i spent all of   5 years working with programers and  the like to develop a new weather forecasting model its a blend of the Euro and NAM and GFS and also the GIS and Geographic systems it takes the data you input into it and it confiigures it self to  better understand the micro climates  that exist in a forecast area like in washington DC a good example of that   2 years ago when we had the only major snow event  of the winter  in march   the GWFS Geographical weather forecast system  Called for  4+ inches of snow for elevations about 200 feet and rain in The Cities of washington and balitimore and points east and south and sure enough  thats what occured  the NWS olney office got 4.5 inches of snow  a heavy wet snow it didn't  stick around long but that was a milestone achevement for the Models forecasting ablity and this winter of 2013/2014 it forecasted for the first time since tests where completed and it had a 92 % sucess rate compaired to the other models that did ok but not as well as the GWFS model

and we are also developing new Chase equipment that could be used in forest fires too  its a drone that when it takes off its under manual control but when it gets to a storm it switches over  to computer control because the human brain is to slow to make corrections and it could end up crashed  in a tornado so  the  on board computer will take over fligiht functions and allow the pilot to monitor insturments and gather data on the storm. thats in the test phase but it looks promising.

I am now 41 and i will be 42 in Novemember  2014 and i am married again i was married before at a young age but she secumb to cancer  at 10 years of marrage i am married again i have children and such i am still a Meteorologist and scientist  but i am not an astronaut any more  but some also call me an astronaut those that know me  and have served with me as a astronaut.  well that's a bit about me hope it was helpful.

P.S.Oh I left out the fact that i am A vampire/Mutant and a vampire Noble   i have  a wife   iam married her Name is Savannah  she's a wonderful person i have several facebook pages because each one is for the personalities that i have but i am under a doctors care for them  they are personalities from my past lives  that have been integrated into me as a person  but they are still kept separate  i don't know why that is but they are  they are not evil or anything just  different people i was  through out my life before this incarnation. if you believe that sort of stuff but if you do that's a bit about me and if you don't that's ok. just ignore the last part i wrote. :-) its cool and such anyway that's a  little bit about me hope that helps

Dr James F Miller