LocoAko
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Fantastic. Thanks for all your hard work Brett!
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Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but yikes. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/04/california-natural-gas-leak-methane-climate-change-old-infrastructure?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Not Arctic, but thought I'd share. http://news.agu.org/press-release/satellite-data-shows-u-s-methane-hot-spot-bigger-than-expected/
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Just figured I'd get a main thread going for the potential impacts of the remnants of Tropical Storm Odile on the Southern Plains to organize the discussion. So far, the Euro has backed off of its prolific rainfall totals (up to 17" SW of OKC) that it showed yesterday, but forecasts keep bouncing around a bit as is to be expected, with the GFS now shifting the swath of heaviest rain into northern OK from southern KS and the 84-hr NAM doing the same. WPC Discussion Threw this together from the GFS forecast PWAT and the climatological PWAT graph from OUN to demonstrate their point: Forecast Offices Graphics Norman Amarillo Drought Monitor And just for fun, a discussion from the Oklahoma State Climatologist of the heaviest rainfall events in Oklahoma history (all due to tropical remnants): http://ticker.mesonet.org/select.php?mo=09&da=16&yr=2014 -
Devastating tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri
LocoAko replied to Hoosier's topic in Weather Forecasting and Discussion
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See edit above. I believe the extra is 91F on April 16th.
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Adding New Brunswick, NJ through today: 90 degree days: 17 (April: 1, May: 2, June: 6, July: 8) 89 degree days: 1
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Dr. Francis!
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Reconsider majoring in meteorology!
LocoAko replied to stormguy80's topic in Weather Forecasting and Discussion
Well both our synoptic and mesoscale courses have extremely heavy focuses on forecasting (we're required to forecast every day, write summaries if we bust, use GEMPAK to forecast, etc.) but I'm not going to claim that when you graduate with a B.S. that you're a "good" forecaster just because you earned a BS and I think you know that wouldn't be true too - that was my point. -
Reconsider majoring in meteorology!
LocoAko replied to stormguy80's topic in Weather Forecasting and Discussion
I think you'd be surprised at how little forecasting there is in undergrad. I mean, it is there, but it isn't a primary focus. I gather most forecasting skills are picked up along the way (using the knowledge you gained in school) and on-the-job. I know that even at bigger programs like Penn State, while graduate school is obviously researched-focused, they even have forecasting classes at the graduate level. So don't get too down about it.
