{"id":7168,"date":"2016-05-25T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2016-05-25T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T02:09:08","slug":"how-do-you-become-a-meteorologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/how-do-you-become-a-meteorologist\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you become a meteorologist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I get asked what you need to do to become a meteorologist. \u00a0Not many people realize how much math there is in getting a degree in atmospheric science or a related program. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd has a good description of what it takes to get a degree in meteorology in his Forbes.com post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/05\/25\/how-do-you-become-a-meteorologist\/#6a5673a5188a\">here<\/a>. \u00a0But even if you don&#8217;t have a degree, you can still love and appreciate the weather and observe it as a citizen scientist for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocorahs.org\">CoCoRaHS<\/a> or other organizations. \u00a0In my experience, farmers and foresters are very good weather observers because it affects their activities on a daily (and occasionally hourly) basis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5440\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Weatherman-AK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5440\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Weatherman-AK-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: John Ryan, KUCB via Alaska Dispatch News\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Weatherman-AK-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Weatherman-AK-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Weatherman-AK.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: John Ryan, KUCB via Alaska Dispatch News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I get asked what you need to do to become a meteorologist. \u00a0Not many people realize how much math there is in getting a degree in atmospheric science or a related program. \u00a0Dr. Marshall Shepherd has a good description of what it takes to get a degree in meteorology in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}