Category Archives: Fixing Meteorology

Would you Advise your Kids to be Meteorologists?

15 Mar, 2012 | 15
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Knowing what you know today about the job market and where the future of meteorology is heading…would you advise your kid(s) to be meteorologists?  It’s a question that I’ve been thinking about given that I have a 6 month old son. First, I strongly believe that doing what you love is important.  Doing something that [...]

Meteorologists should be given credit when they are right!

21 Dec, 2011 | 9
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Just for kicks, I did a Twitter search yesterday evening and typed in the keyword “meteorologist.”  And I saw at least 10 tweets that said they wish they could be a ‘meteorologist’ so they could get paid to be “wrong”. And the next set of tweets I saw were showing how many people were blaming [...]

Can we finally define who a “Meteorologist” is?!

28 Nov, 2011 | 93
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I think we need to have a serious discussion in this country about defining who a meteorologist is and why anyone can blindly use the term.   This post is probably going to offend a few people…including some of my friends who are ‘meteorologists’ in the TV business.  This conversation happens all the time in the [...]

The Shift Work Environment in Meteorology Needs to Change!

18 Nov, 2011 | 29
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The shift work environment in meteorology needs to change…Yea I said it!  We all know that most of the operational meteorology jobs out there involve some type of shift work.  Although I’ve talked about few Monday-Friday operational meteorology jobs (See my previous post), most operational meteorologists are forced to work overnights, holidays, weekends. And it [...]