WeatherHype is proud to be one of several great weather and science-themed podcasts participating in the first annual National Weather Podcast Month (#NWPM). On this week's episode, we have Dakota Smith (@weatherDak), the co-host of The Weather Junkies, on to talk about his inspiration behind a collaborative podcast project "Weather Ready or Not." Minh, Castle and Dakota talk about the importance of sharing personal stories and narratives from people directly affected by weather and climate events and also share their own stories on how to effectively talk to people about climate change and science in general. Of course, we have a little (actually a lot of) fun, and we share our songs of the week. So join WeatherHype for our first episode of #NWPM! Modifications were made for the Introduction and transition music "Baby, I'm Bad Weather" by Toussaint Morrison: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and "As Colorful as Ever" by Broke for Free: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/