Professional Meteorology: Personal Statement

Wrongberight, Virginia is a rural farming community, and its residents depend on accurate weather reports. The locals believe, those profession meteorologists could not predict rain, even if raindrops were falling on their head. On Thursday the local weather guru of Wrongberight, Charlie Jones, age eleven forecast a ten-hour deluge would hit on Friday. It did. In fact it dumps eight addition inches of rain, to the already, saturated farmer’s fields and woodlands from the previous intermittent rainstorm that he also predicted. According to him, that storm on Friday was just a prelude to another storm that will strike Wrongberight, sometime early Saturday night. He also said, that this kind of storm would produce, at least one or two unique

1. It is hard to imagine a world without weather forecasts as they have become so indispensable to so many facets of everyday life in the 21st Century.

My father, Edward Wollbrinck, has always been into the news and weather for as long as I could remember. He likes storms. They fascinate him. Or should I just say storms fascinate my parents, brother, and me. I don’t know why we are interested in storms, but we just are. We also are interested in tornados, even though they are dangerous, it's just interesting to know how they form, what the they do, and figure out how the eye of the tornado is like.

Meteorologists play an important in our society by giving us information on weather and how to protect ourselves against it. They make weather more able to read for us, who probably don’t know how to read data. In order to become an atmospheric scientist or “ meteorologist”, one must first understand the job description, education needed, salary, and opportunity for advancement.

Almost every character has a different idea about what the weather really was and the way it was introduced from the start of the novel puts doubts in the reader’s mind about the

Every day people listen to meteorologists before making many decisions pertaining to their lives. In this case, Miss Minnie was no exception. Since she wanted to know if she would need protection from rain, she watched the local weatherman just a few hours before leaving. As a result, she chooses to leave without any. Therefore, she was devastated when she was sitting at the bus stop and it started to rain. Miss Minnie, like others, has watched weather reports become more advanced over the years and assumed that the radars would be able to indicate rain hourly. Therefore, when the weatherman said there was sunny skies with a slight chance of rain, she believed him and wore her best.

I have always been passionate about mathematics, technology, and spending time outdoors. As an adult, I would love to pursue a career which involves these three passions of mine, and meteorology seems to fit that description very well. By attending the CCNY Weather Camp, I would be able to get a glimpse at the work that meteorologists perform on a day-to-day basis, which would help determine whether it is the right profession for me. I would also be able to contribute my background knowledge and skills in the three areas of my interest to our work with weather. To start with mathematics, I have attended many extracurricular programs regarding the topic, a note-worthy one being the New York Math Circle Summer Program, where I spent several weeks

While attending Iowa State, I will pursue a degree in the enviornmental science of meteorology. Beginning in my childhood, I have developed a fascination for the weather and its connections to calculus and physics. Aside from my physics and math classes at school, my knowledge of meteorology comes from a self-taught effort and not school curriculum. While in grade school, I eagerly sought out books on the weather in my school library and I loved to share my discoveries with my friends and even my teachers.

The weather in a story has a big effect on the reader. Weather in a story is veryimportant; it helps readers visualize a scan or setting for better visitation of thebook. When reading a book the more details the book has the better you canunderstand what your reading. When a book describes weather details this helps areader picture the mood of the story. Weather details give off an emotionalconnection to the story such as “dark stormy night” makes you think of a scary storyor something bad happening. A book reading “a bright sunny day” it makes youthink of a nice summer day and a happy setting. Weather has a strong influence on areader and is a vital part of a

Meteorology is the study of the atmosphere and its effect on our weather. Meteorology focuses primarily on the troposphere where most weather occurs. Meteorologists study, observe, and predict weather by using scientific principles. They also study the relationship between the atmosphere and Earth's climate, oceans, and life. There are four meteorological scales in meteorology: microscale, mesoscale, synoptic scale and global scale. Meteorologists will usually focus on a specific meteorological scale. Microscale meteorologists study the processes that occur between soil, vegetation, and surface water. Mesoscale scale meteorology focus on atmospheric phenomena that occur in a range from several kilometers to roughly one thousand kilometers.

My ultimate goal in life is to become a meteorologist. Not the kind you see on tv or radio but what most would refer to as the “behind the scenes” meteorologist; with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). From there I have a few options, but the paths I want to pursue are with the NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) or the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). With the NWS I would produce forecast and issue watches, warnings, and advisories; fulfilling the agency's goals of protecting life and property. My second possibility would be as a NOAA meteorologist with in one of the FAA’s Air Route Traffic Control Centers, working with air traffic controllers and advising them on meteorological hazards that would affect aircraft

Every opportunity that I get to learn, explain and express this indescribable love for these weather phenomenon I seize it enthusiastically. I purely love the science of weather and discussing it with

Meteorologists are people who study the different things happening in the earth's atmosphere so that they can make predictions about the weather. They make use of advance equipment of all shapes and sizes to measure things like rainfall, air pressure, wind conditions and temperature. As weather is a complex thing, they would need to collect a lot of data to understand it properly. They carry out experiments before drawing conclusions about the weather. It must be exciting to have such a difficult but interesting

The National Weather Service is working hard to develop a Weather-Ready Nation, which will improve the safety of the country. Weather predictions are important in ensuring that decision makers and the public understand and appreciate the messages so that they take appropriate action. As predictions continue to improve over time, clearly communicating the forecast impacts and the uncertainty will help the National Weather Service fulfill its role in creating a weather-ready nation. Working together, agencies, local communities and the public can help to make that vision a

Although modern meteorology is considered inaccurate, and precise information about atmospheric conditions is not always available, understanding of the atmosphere has evolved and improved greatly over the millennia. In antiquity, atmospheric phenomena was interpreted as a supernatural, often reflecting divine opinions of man’s actions (Fleming). Ancients thought of rainbows as a pathway from mortal Earth to the Heavens, and observation was limited to the crude human senses. As modern scientific principles became more prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries, weather was increasingly seen as a physical result of atmospheric conditions. For example, René Descartes discarded the supernatural view of rainbows, instead