{"id":4011,"date":"2015-08-13T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2015-08-13T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:23:29","slug":"do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-predict-the-future-the-reality-behind-becoming-a-meteorologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/08\/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-predict-the-future-the-reality-behind-becoming-a-meteorologist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do You Have What It Takes to Predict the Future? The Reality Behind Becoming a Meteorologist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are promos out for a new reality television show on TBS called &#8220;America&#8217;s Next Weatherman.&#8221; \u00a0Meteorologists (I know many, am married to one, and am one myself) are generally troubled\u00a0by the premise of the show. \u00a0In general, the show asks a handful of weather enthusiasts to perform wacky stunts in order to compete for a sum of money and a chance to present the weather on CNN for a few minutes. \u00a0Meteorologists are often the butt of jokes (&#8220;the only job you can have where you are paid to be wrong half the time&#8221;) even though they provide very useful (to farmers and others) and sometimes life-saving information on a daily basis. \u00a0They are also often the only scientist that news-watchers see on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0degree in meteorology takes a lot of math and physics, not just a pretty face, although the pretty face can help in landing one of the rare on-camera jobs that are available nowadays. \u00a0If you are interested in the training it takes to become a real meteorologist, there is a great column at <em>The Vane<\/em> which describes the classes you need to take, the job prospects, and the negative comments you will get if your forecast is even a little bit wrong (and sometimes when you are right). \u00a0You can find it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thevane.gawker.com\/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-predict-the-future-the-re-1723297960\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/thevane.gawker.com\/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-predict-the-future-the-re-1723297960<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Daniel, one of our UGA graduates who is now a broadcast meteorologist for WMAZ in Macon, pointed out this article today. \u00a0A must read for anyone who is thinking about a degree in meteorology!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4012\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/matt-daniel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4012\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/matt-daniel.png\" alt=\"Matt Daniel, UGA graduate, WMAZ Macon television meteorologist\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/matt-daniel.png 160w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/matt-daniel-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/matt-daniel-138x138.png 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Daniel, UGA graduate, WMAZ Macon television meteorologist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are promos out for a new reality television show on TBS called &#8220;America&#8217;s Next Weatherman.&#8221; \u00a0Meteorologists (I know many, am married to one, and am one myself) are generally troubled\u00a0by the premise of the show. \u00a0In general, the show asks a handful of weather enthusiasts to perform wacky stunts in order to compete for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}