What do you think of when you hear the word meteorology? Of course most people think of weather. There are some individuals out there that take past more than just the word “weather.” Those same people think about weather then connect it to storms, news, and global disasters. Those people who made those connections are called meteorologists. I was lucky enough to speak with a meteorologist, named Mark Stevens. Mark works for the Herald Argus and does the weekly forecasting. Not only does he forecast a bit, he also is a storm chaser! He said that he likes to forecast and that it is a lot of fun. He also said, “Chasing storms has always been my dream. I can drop just about anything to be able to go out and chase storms!” The big storms such as tornadoes and hurricanes are what draw a lot of students to meteorology. Some students aspire to be a meteorologist, but there some major setbacks with trying to be a meteorologist. The setbacks are different with the route you pick. Some kids want to be a storm chaser. Some want to be a weather man/woman. Others want to work for the National Weather Service or do research. No matter the route they choose all share at least two setbacks, those are being competition and money. Yes the thing that we work so hard for, some more than others, can be pretty hard to obtain in a world full of aspiring meteorologists. My only answer to these problems is time…
Meteorologists are ridiculed left and right and are not appreciated for all of the work that they have to do every day. Meteorologists are constantly observing the weather and trying to keep the public updated. Meteorologists are the people that you see on the television telling you what to wear every day. They put together the images of a radar...
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...y should be looked up to because without it our lives would be a whole lot harder to deal with.
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On May 20th, 2013 a EF 5 tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma and surrounding towns, with a path as wide as 1.3 miles wide (2.1 km) and had a wind speed, estimated at its peak, of 210 miles per hour (340 km/h). Killing 24 people, and injuring 377, this was one of the United States worst tornadoes in the past few years, along side the Joplin, Missouri tornado, in 2011. One of Mother Nature’s most dangerous and still very mysterious phenomenons averages about 1,200 reported each year, resulting in 80 deaths and injuring 1500. With very little known about them, especially whether or not they will form is one of the questions that plague meteorologist to this very day. What causes tornadoes, how does the tilt and gravity of the earth affect the winds to produce a tornado, and what will the future hold about our understanding of tornadoes?
Although Greensburg was almost entirely destroyed, the storm helped to reinforce the important role that storm chasers play in the tracking and warning process of severe weather. By having well-trained, experienced people in the field, meteorologists and weather services are better able to track the exact location and characteristics of tornadic events, relaying that information to the public faster and more accurately than ever before.
The National Weather Service is constantly trying to provide us with data and other information about when and where hurricanes are forming. It has been said that the only way
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Tornadoes are devastating atmospheric events that affect the ecology and the lives of people in their paths. Tornadoes are defined as “a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud” (Glossary of Meterology, 2011). The Tri-state tornado was the most deadly tornado in the United States. It stayed on the ground for a total of 219 miles through areas of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killed a total of 695 people, and an estimated $16.5 million in damages (National Weather Service, 2011). Luckily, the tornado’s path was largely rural farmland with scattered small towns between them.
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The “Tri-State tornado” was a tornado that occurred on March 18, 1925, that struck three different states beginning with Missouri then through Illinois, and ending in Indiana. (JOHNS, R. H., BURGESS, D. W., DOSWELL III, C. A., GILMORE, M. S., HART, J. A., & PILTZ, S. F. 2013). There were officially 695 people killed and approximately 2,000 injured from the deadly tornado. The destruction spanned 219 miles, destroying 15,000 homes and other massive destruction for three and a half hours (Pinkley, J. 2013, April 25). This deadly storm struck in an ERA before Doppler Radar and other modern technologies and forecasters had to rely on witness accounts of the storm to determine its path and times it was on the ground. In 1925 there was no warning
Most tornados produced from these storms are relatively weak, don’t enter inhabited areas, and cause little to no damage. The problem is that Oklahoma gets 55.1 tornados annually. With all of these tornados, a couple of them are bound to go through populated areas and cause damage. The damage the tornado causes incre...
Although the tornado of 10 June 1938 has been known about, at least anecdotally, within the scientific community since it was brought to light in 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, this potentially rich source of historic information has lain fallow. It is within this rich field of mobile, American thinking that we undertake this effort. A team of scientists with courage, brains, and even heart brought the resources to bear on the challenge.
Meteorologists study the atmosphere to warn the people of their location of incoming weather. This job requires education after high school from a college or university in a field related to meteorology. The median salary for meteorologists is around or above the average salary for people in the United States. Meteorologists work around the world and work through every weather situation, either indoors or outdoors. Their responsibilities of the job are very important as it could possibly saves from studying future weather. Computer programing and attention to detail are important skills for meteorologists as they use them every day to study the atmosphere. In order for them to study the data collected, specific tools and equipment are required.
With few exceptions today’s weather tracking technology is only continuing to evolve. The use of satellites allows for accurate readings and predictions of upcoming weather events. These findings in conjunction with such inventions as the Marine VHF radio which can send for help at a maximum range of 60 nautical miles help warn the crew of impending doom before the storm hits. Though many ships have been destroyed by storms in the past, today’s technology is humanity 's solution against the relentless forces of
According to Source 3, tornadoes have winds that are 300 miles an hour. According to Spencer Adkins, West Virginia gets about like 3 tornadoes each year. According to Source 2, tornadoes mostly occur in northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. According to Source 2, there are about 1,000 tornadoes that hit the United States each year. According to Source 2, the cost in damage
...xpected weather conditions over time, previous weather conditions, possible areas of less deteriorating weather conditions, expected duration of bad weather condition.
Four NOMAD buoys across the North Atlantic registered a 13-degree drop in SST. And soon a series of extreme weather happened in front of my eyes: hurricanes, snow storms, and even cyclones that rapidly pulled cool air from the upper troposphere which made people freeze instantly. Those were the scenes I saw from The Day after Tomorrow, the film that inspired my curiosity in atmospheric sciences in my seventh grade. Although shocked by the catastrophe caused by global warming in the film, I couldn't help take an eager interest in how freshwater from melted polar ice caps brought a shift in the North Atlantic Current, and how the shifted current brought a change in the earth’s climate. Later, as I gathered more information about the climate, I became fascinated by the physical and dynamical mechanisms explaining atmospheric phenomenon. And after three years of undergraduate study of atmospheric sciences, beyond the starting point of fascination, I have taken concrete steps forward with my hard work, independence, and creativity.
The weather forecasters use probability and statistics just as much if not more than any other field on earth. As weather patterns are not fully understood and are dynamic, analysts have to rely heavily on past weather systems and patterns to “guess'; or estimate the possibility of present weather systems to behave in similar manners. If the probability of its behavior, subject to certain factors, in one manner over another is high forecasters make decisions as to how to advise the public.