Thanks to the awesome software of GRLevel 3 to show a very nice Base Reflectivity of Hurricane Dolly entering southern Texas. As of 1PM eastern this system has Max Sustained winds of 100mph and is moving WNW at 7mph (SOURCE: National Hurricane Center)
According to the latest Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Source), the amount of recipients of the Bachelor degree in Meteorology has increased 47% between 1994 and 2004. One can only speculate that it has increased over the past four years as well (including myself ^__^)
What is frightening though is that the article goes on to say that during the same time frame the amount of jobs in the meteorology field has increased only 12 %. All in all the article goes on to say the following:
“If current trends in undergraduate meteorology enrollment and employment in the United States continue, there will be far more degreed meteorologists than jobs in meteorology during the next decade” (Knox 2008)
This has been one of the reasons why I decided to go to graduate school. I have heard from numerous people that within the next few years, the Bachelors degree in Meteorology will become obsolete. More and more employers (at least in non-broadcasting fields) will start to hire students who have Masters degrees over students with only Bachelors.
However I am willing to bet that within the next few years more and more jobs will be created in parallel with ongoing trends (such as global warming, air quality, etc). However if you have the need for learning (like I do), then you should just “keep on chugging” and go for that masters.
Wow I got a comment Response. I nearly jumped out of my seat…”SOMEONE ELSE IS READING THIS!?!?!”
Let’s look at a comment efeion said about my master’s statement in the previous post:
“Wait til I get my Masters“, that statement deserves an AWESOME. However what are you going to say to people when you finally finish school? ^_^
Don’t worry efeion, I have a plan all figured out. In (hopefully) 2 years, when I get my masters, I will be able to respond to the question, “What’s the weather going to be like?”, with:
“I have to get a job before I can give out a good answer to that” — Jared Rennie
Then, when I do get a job, I can say this for the rest of time
“I’ve been working all day, I’m not giving forecasts during my off-time” — Jared Rennie
It’s BULLET PROOF! Oh well, have a good weekend everyone!
Well once again laziness as limited my posting abilities here. Hopefully things will pick up soon.
Update for me, I am six weeks into my summer work here at Tufts University. I have 6 or 7 more weeks left, depending on housing situations. But I have been keeping myself busy. I have been re-writing notes for some of my meteorology undergraduate classes. So far I’ve finished Atmospheric Thermodynamics, and now I turn to the 3 Hoffman Synoptic classes I took. The lease for my apartment in Plymouth starts on August 1st, so in less than 4 weeks I’ll start brining my things up there.
But enough about me, let’s turn to some news
“If you thought people didn’t watch the Weather Channel before, wait until NBC gets a hold of it” — Jay Leno
Yep, that’s right, NBC has purchased the Weather Channel from Landmark Communications (Source). According to the article, 3.5 billion dollars in cash was the agreement. THREE POINT FIVE BILLION! They are going to give that to newly graduating meteorologists…right?
That reminds me, it’s official, my Bachelor of Science in Meteorology came in the mail last week. So now you can ask me what the weather is going to be like, and I can give you an honest answer:
“Wait til I get my Masters” — Jared Rennie
And now for REAL weather, we turn to Bertha:
We have our first hurricane of the season. Hurricanes are not my expertise, but I do know that Hurricanes can can be blocked and be pushed into a different direction by a High Pressure system. and thanks to the strong Bermuda high, this system is going to track northward, as the 11AM National Hurricane Center forecasts:
