{"id":6286,"date":"2016-03-03T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2016-03-03T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:42:50","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-be-a-meteorologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-meteorologist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it like to be a meteorologist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When most people think of meteorologists, they think of someone on television cracking jokes about the weather and waving their hands in front of moving weather graphics. \u00a0Or they think of someone chasing tornadoes, even though many chasers do not have degrees in meteorology and are more thrill-seekers than scientists.<\/p>\n

But meteorologists do many other things as well, including air quality monitoring, agricultural forecasting and severe storm protection. \u00a0If you know of someone who is interested in what meteorologists do, here are a few resources for you. \u00a0All of these are recorded CoCoRaHS presentations that last for about an hour except for the first one, which is text on a web site.<\/p>\n

Surveying storm damage: A day in the life of a storm survey meteorologist<\/a><\/div>\n
So you want to become a meteorologist?<\/a><\/div>\n
Life as a climatologist: What the heck does a climatologist do?<\/a>\u00a0(given by Ryan Boyles, NC State Climatologist)
\nA day in the life of a National Weather Service forecast office<\/a><\/div>\n
Weather CSI: Forensic meteorology<\/a>\u00a0(starring yours truly)<\/div>\n
Agricultural meteorology: Layer upon layer<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Upcoming CoCoRaHS webinar on “The day in the life of a television meteorologist” to be given Thursday, March 24 at 1 pm EDT. \u00a0You can register at\u00a0https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\/Content.aspx?page=wxtalk<\/a>.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\"Source:<\/a>
Source: National Severe Storms Lab, NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When most people think of meteorologists, they think of someone on television cracking jokes about the weather and waving their hands in front of moving weather graphics. \u00a0Or they think of someone chasing tornadoes, even though many chasers do not have degrees in meteorology and are more thrill-seekers than scientists. But meteorologists do many other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","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=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}