Lucy Doll
KNOE Meteorologist
Monroe, La.
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Lucy Doll is a Meteorologist for KNOE 8 News.
Lucy joined the KNOE Weather Authority team in June of 2020. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Lucy has seen everything from tornadoes to ice storms. As a child, Lucy was terrified of thunder and tornadoes. Once she began visiting the local library and discovering books about clouds, her fear turned into fascination and wonder. Fun fact: Lucy won a contest when she was 6 for being able to name all the clouds in the sky. The prize was having the local ABC station meteorologist come and do the weather forecast from Lucy’s backyard! Lucy is now looking forward to sharing her knowledge and passion to help keep her community safe and informed during severe weather.
Lucy graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in Atmospheric Science and a minor in Spanish. Lucy was actively involved in her sorority, Sigma Kappa, and her honors fraternity, Phi Sigma Pi. She also worked as a weekend weather forecaster at the local NBC affiliate. Lucy was an active volunteer with the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri. She is also a sustainability advocate and is trying to reduce her carbon footprint one veggie burger at a time.
In her free time Lucy enjoys kayaking, biking, reading, and spending time with her cat, MongoJerry.
Updated: Jun. 13, 2022 at 5:59 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
For the last few weeks, we have been talking about El Niño and La Niña climate patterns. Today I want to focus on La Niña and how it can affect hurricane season.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 2:31 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
La Nina and El Nino have a drastic effect on our weather patterns, especially during hurricane season. This week on the Weather Academy we demonstrate how La Nina and El Nino impact ocean currents in the Pacific and how that relates to our forecast.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 1:38 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Today marks the official start of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season and we have two disturbances that we are monitoring in the Atlantic. Our first named storm of the year is expected to form by this weekend.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 6:21 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Last week on the Weather Academy, we went back to the basics and talked about the water cycle. And today, we’re gonna be doing a hands-on experiment demonstrating the water cycle on a smaller scale.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 6:27 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
The season’s first plume of Saharan dust is heading towards the Gulf. It will travel 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving along the Gulf Coast by this weekend.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 6:01 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Understanding the water cycle and how it works is the key to understanding weather.
Updated: May. 15, 2022 at 4:39 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Last week on the Weather Academy, Sheena taught us all about how rainbows form and the key ingredients that we need in order to see them. This week we are going to be using those ingredients to create our own rainbows!
Updated: Apr. 25, 2022 at 6:07 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
This week we’re going to be building our own severe weather safety kit to take into our safe place. A severe weather safety kit is a collection of life-saving tools that you’ll want to have with you when severe weather strikes.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 6:05 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
This week we’re going to be continuing on our topic of severe weather and focusing on storm-safe places. Your storm-safe place is where you go when warnings are put into place for your area.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2022 at 11:21 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has confirmed an EF-2 tornado tracked from Winn Parish into Caldwell Parish from Wednesday’s storms. The tornado had peak winds of 115 mph and traveled 19.3 miles.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 6:10 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
The countdown begins until hurricane season, which is forecasted to be another above-average year.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 5:59 AM CDT
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
We're continuing to learn about wind on the Weather Academy. This week, we will conduct an experiment to make an instrument that measures wind called an anemometer.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 6:06 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Today on the Weather Academy, we discuss severe weather risk categories. The threat of severe weather is back in the forecast as we head into this week. You’re likely going to hear us as meteorologists talk about the different types of severe weather outlooks issued for our region.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2022 at 9:35 AM CDT
|By Matthew Posgai, Sheena Martin, Matthew Segura and Lucy Doll
All severe weather hazards are possible Monday into Tuesday, including tornadoes.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 5:57 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Today we are talking about one of the deadliest weather phenomena, flooding. Flooding was the second-highest cause of weather-related deaths behind the heat in the last ten years.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 6:13 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Last week on the Weather Academy we learned all about how hail forms in a thunderstorm. Today we will be conducting an experiment that will give a hands-on application of hail formation.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 2:51 PM CST
|By Lucy Doll
On Tuesday, March 1 at 3:38 pm CST, NASA will launch the GOES-T weather satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Flordia.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2022 at 5:58 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Last week, we learned all about how tornadoes form, so this week, we will put that knowledge to the test by making our tornado in a bottle. This is a fun and simple experiment that clearly illustrates how a vortex forms.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 5:59 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll
We are continuing our topic of severe weather today and will be learning all about tornado formation. By definition, a tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air. But how do they form? Today we dive into that topic.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 at 3:54 PM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Spring severe weather season is just around the corner here in ArkLaMiss so we headed out to ULM to talk to Dr. Todd Murphy about how the Atmospheric Science department will contribute to one of the largest and most comprehensive severe storm field campaigns to date.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 5:10 PM CST
|By Lucy Doll
On February 2, at 6 AM EST, Punxsutawney Phil will crawl out of his den and look for his shadow. According to folklore, if Phil sees his shadow and crawls back into his den we can expect to see six more weeks of winter. If Phil doesn’t see his shadow, we can expect an early spring. But just how accurate can a 20 lbs rodent’s forecast be?
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 6:27 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Last week we learned all about snowfall forecasting. We typically don’t see a lot of snow here in the ArkLaMiss. And when it does snow, it usually doesn’t stick long enough to have much fun with it. That’s why we decided that we will be making our very own snow this week and having a snowball fight.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 at 5:55 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll
This week, we are talking about my favorite type of precipitation, snowfall! Typically here in the ArkLaMiss, we see snow once or twice a year, but it doesn’t like to stick. However, we see plenty of the other types of winter precipitation. So let’s dive into the science behind snowfall.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2022 at 6:33 AM CST
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
Today we’re gonna be doing an experiment that’s going to help demonstrate the power of pressure. This will be a refresher before we dive into next week’s topic of bomb cyclogenesis.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 11:02 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll
Happy Perihelion Day! Today the Earth is at its closest point to the sun in its orbit. Today the Earth is approximately 91,406,842 miles away from the sun
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 3:36 PM CST
|By Lucy Doll
We’re talking about the polar vortex this week on the Weather Academy. Now we hear the words polar vortex a lot in the news, or even as we discuss our forecasts, especially in the wintertime, the polar vortex is happening all year round.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2021 at 5:57 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
We typically don’t see a white Christmas here in Louisiana, but that’s not going to stop us from trying to make our own. Today on the Weather Academy, we’ll be making crystallized snowflakes that you can hang on your Christmas tree.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 5:54 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
This week on the Weather Academy, we will be conducting an experiment that will allow us to see frost forming up close and hopefully give us a better understanding of why frost forms.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2021 at 6:11 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll
We are diving into a new topic on this week's Weather Academy, frost! We will frequently wake up to see frost coating the grass, leaves, and sometimes even our cars in the morning during the winter. Today we go over the three main factors of frost development.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 9:10 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll
November 30 marks the official end of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. This year was the third most active on record and fourth costliest. So let’s take a look back.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 9:09 AM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
In this week's Weather Academy, we head to Kiroli Park to talk with West Monroe Parks and Recreation Director Stuart Hodnett about how weather affects fall foliage.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 12:14 PM CST
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
This week we’re going to be doing an experiment to show the different chemical pigments that are left behind once the leaves change color and the chlorophyll breaks down.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2021 at 3:18 PM CST
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Looking for a way to recycle your Jack-o'-lantern? Well, look no further! Today we will be using chemistry to make oozing pumpkins.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 6:43 AM CDT
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
All month we’ve been learning about lightning and thunder, and today we’re going to be creating lightning right here in the studio using mints.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 7:50 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Earlier this month, we learned all about lightning. But what about the loud boom that usually follows quickly after lightning strikes? Today Meteorologist Lucy Doll dives into the question, what is thunder?
Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 at 5:54 AM CDT
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
This week is Louisiana Severe Weather Preparedness Week and today will we be discussing the difference between watches and warnings using a very tasty example.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 5:07 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Last week on the Weather Academy, we learned about positive and negative charges during a thunderstorm and how that creates lightning. And this week, we’re going to do some simple experiments to show how lightning works on a small scale using a balloon.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 6:26 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
The week on the Weather Academy, we are going to build upon our knowledge of fronts and conduct an experiment that you can easily replicate at home.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 2:17 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
This week on the Weather Academy, we build upon last week's topic and dive into fronts. Fronts can cause a dramatic change in our weather pattern and this week we discuss why.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 2:16 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Rainfall amounts will range from 1-6″ over the next 7 days.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 6:53 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
This week on the Weather Academy we conduct two experiments that help illustrate the power of pressure. Our imploding can and rising water experiments are sure to be a BLAST!
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 8:31 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
All month long, we’ve been learning about hurricanes. And last week, we built our own hurricane-proof house. But today, we’re going to be learning about the cone of uncertainty.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2021 at 1:08 PM CDT
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
This week we are challenging you to build a structure out of items that you can find around the house and see if it can withstand a hurricane (or at least our handy box fan).
Updated: Aug. 18, 2021 at 7:00 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
On this episode of the Weather Academy, we break down the Saffir-Simpson scale, aka the scale used to categorize hurricanes.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 1:05 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
The annual Perseids meteor shower will be peaking Aug 11 & 12 as shooting stars will be visible in the night sky.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 7:03 AM CDT
|By Lucy Doll and Sheena Martin
Join us on this week's Weather Academy as we learn about the anatomy of a hurricane by making a hurricane in a bowl.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 4:05 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
Starting August 2, the National Weather Service will add new damage threat categories to Severe Thunderstorm Warnings to better communicate impacts
Updated: Aug. 1, 2021 at 2:33 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
The International Space Station will fly over Monroe on August 1 at 9:40 PM and will be visible for four minutes.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2021 at 7:08 AM CDT
|By Sheena Martin and Lucy Doll
Hot days can be no fun, but we use the heat to our advantage this week on the Weather Academy! Join us as we harness the power of the sun to cook s'mores in our very own solar oven.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2021 at 3:23 PM CDT
|By Lucy Doll
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