Meteorologists
By: Maddy Peters
About meteorology
- Tells an audience about their local weather
- Studies the weather
- Studies patterns
- Looks at the atmosphere to predict weather
- Also studies how it effects land, air, and water
- Studies global warming
- Uses information from satellites
- Can tell people if severe weather is coming to prepare them
- They can predict long or short forecasts
- Studies how pollution is affecting the earth
Pros and cons
You get to educate people on the weather, because then you know more about the earth.
If you find meteorology interesting then that's a pro because you learn more about earth and the atmosphere.
If you also like attention, you could be on television.
Cons:
Meteorologist have weird schedules sometimes because severe weather can happen overnight.
A job opening could be away from your family, which can be bad for some people.
You might have to work long hours at a time and might not get a huge break.
What you need to have
University of California Los Angeles
The pro is that this school is a very high school and has high standards. A con is that this college is far from home, which is a big step.
University of Wisconsin Madison
A pro to this school is that it has many extracurricular activities, and a con is that it is a few hours from home.
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
This college is good because you are not very far from home and you might have friends to drive you back to home because you're on the way. A bad thing is that this college isn't very high up in colleges.
The American Meteorological Society
Email: amsinfo@ametsoc.org
Website: https://www2.ametsoc.org/ams/
Phone: 617-227-2425
Job advertisement
Citations
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"Meteorology Facts." Meteorology Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2016.
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"University of Los Angeles." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, n.d. Web.
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"Branding and Visual Identity Guidelines." Downloads: Print Logos. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2016.
"MSM – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee." TFE Times. N.p., 25 Jan. 2015. Web. 15 Jan. 2016.