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Back in the day we all got along under one subforum..... These past few years being separated(NYC & Philly on its own) it has really put a strain on this site as a whole.

It took me three years to get a job; just keep persevering and eventually something pops up. I did start taking some graduate classes online and in a few years if I get tired of the broadcast side I can jump into something else met related.

And that's the issue with things today-Everyone relies too much on technology and not using the older techniques used back in the earlier days. Before I bought a smartphone and I was away from my computer I would look up at the sky and look at clouds to determine what the weather would be like for the next few hours. I used to carry around my Intro Met book in my truck because of the great appendix in the back for a quick reference guide on how to nowcast. I also feel that what I learned from that one professor really enhanced my forecasting skills- although sometimes it was tedious to hand plot a sounding and hand analyze every level of a case study back in 1963, it helped me appreciate what our forefathers of the field went through.

For people reading this thread intending to pursue a met degree should check out Kean-we have many unique professors including what was mentioned before, an old school met whom still prefers the printout/fax maps to analyze storms(he hates computers), and a former NWA president!

He started every class saying "Okayyyyyyyyyy", and one of my favorite lines he had was "Jews" of water "wapor". All kidding aside, he was an awesome professor and the best teacher I've ever had-he helped me get the funds to get to the AMS meeting in New Orleans for my poster presentation.

I'll always remember using "Matrab" and IDV during labs.

That makes no sense since he ran his own WRF every day and did research papers on mesoscale modeling with some met majors-mostly it was computer based though, but still.....

I don't remember Dr. Yoh admitting that he wouldn't know how to forecast, but I rarely ever saw him make one. His undergrad was in Meteorology(somewhere out the US I believe), but his PhD is actually in Physics.

Mississippi State can be done all online for a Broadcast Met degree.

I forgot about the computer science classes! Once again, almost failed the first class....took the second class in a six week summer session and received an B.

Yep-the first few weeks were learning some Calc and Skew-Ts. We had a great professor. I was lucky enough to be one of the few "pioneers" of the Keancast-we started off as a weekly weather show, but we were able to score some old WSI computers from News 12 to actually help us make professional graphics and look really legit. There were also daily radio forecasts played across campus and it did gain popularity rather quickly. It really was Greg, but I don't think many people know that we had a very "old school" professor-he hated computers and we had two labs a week so the one lab we'd analyze maps from March 3, 1963 and then the other lab was taught by another met professor where we broke off into teams and rotated throughout the semester to give a daily weather briefing(Forky loved those days )

In my senior year Kean participated in the WxChallenge, and we also had a broadcast met class that was created by Dr. Paul Croft(the Mt. Holly guys know him well).

I believe Rutgers and Millersville offers forecasting classes. Partial derivations was mixed into the beginning of Thermodynamics.

I was all alone man! Everyone else had each other in the class. I wound up befriending a math major to help me out on the take-homes. BTW, here is the meteorology program requirements. http://hurri.kean.ed...meteorology.pdf EDIT-it looks like Chem I at least is required now.

I took Chemistry back in community college, but when I did transfer to Kean I was shocked that Chem wasn't a requirement. Other than that Kean has a good met program, except that there are no forecasting classes. You are basically left on your own to take everything you learned in class and put it together to make a forecast.

Of course. Who else? Luckily he took pity on me for being the only meteorology major in his night class(I think I took GIS, which conflicted with the daytime Diffy Q class).