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your power here is unimaginable. we all thank you for your mercy. lol

This was a lot of work. The current production suite doesn't fill half the system. We, the NWS and global model community are going to grow.

You can get into the NWS being other than a Meteorologist.

FORTRAN, varieties of C, shell scripting mainly Bash, Python for post processing, then the visualization softwares, NCL, GEMPAK, etc

Today!

This may help you out: https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/scn19-88emwin_serv_end.pdf

Shocking and we all will miss him around the building.

It's garbage in a lot of ways. This, in particular, is hogwash: Whatever.

This is why they're cautious: i.e. because people die.

That's fair!

Will do.

Show the stats. Would love to see it.

looks like sleet to a little mix at IAD for a few hours.

Gonna bookmark this for review in April. I guess if people are asking for it, you have to give them something.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/82800/cloud-streets-over-the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans

Wiz, NOMADS is exactly what you're looking for. The grib filter is what you use and you can cut any hours, paramaters and even specify your domain out of any of the models. Plus it can be scripted. Lemme know if you have questions. http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/NWS_EMWIN_Stakeholder_Presentation_E.pdf

Not sure "better" is accurate. Alot of these are just the opposite of features you assess for severe risk...so if you learn what causes severe wx, knowing these is a no-brainer. We are taught to assess severe parameters and look for severe where they overlap, like on a severe composite map. Then once the threat area is outlined, you assess the features that would hinder it. At least, that's what I'd do. For example, if you look at severe parameters and find an area where they all overlap, there likely won't be a stable marine layer/lack of ML lapse rates/lack of shear/lack of trigger/no favorable jet/lack of hodo sig/etc there in the first place. You initially found an environment where the opposite of all of these are present. Make sense?

MLCAPE and SBCAPE are just two different ways of initially lifting the parcel. With MLCAPE you average the temp and dewpoint in the lowest 100mb and lift from where they intersect. With SBCAPE, you lift from the surface temp and dewpoint to get your parcel trajectory. For example, in Bob's post above, the parcel looks to be SBCAPE where the traces start at the surface temp/dewpoint. If you try lifting from the average of the lowest 100mb temp/dewpoint, it looks like you would get slightly less CAPE.

Not true. I "only" have a BS in Meteorology/Mathematics (toilet paper degree) and make 100K+ as a Met. Congrats on your windfall but your statement is patently false.

I work for NOAA/NWS/NCEP, am not a forecaster like most of the folks looking for work on this board seem to want to be. I used to apply to all the intern jobs like everyone else but no dice. I turned down a forecasting job in the private sector right out of school, then got hired as a Support Scientist at the University of Northern Iowa. I am fairly certain that my internship (UCAR/COMET) was 75% responsible for me getting the first job, in addition to my grades, and being active in SCAMS. Alot of what I did at UNI was computer-related, I came out of there being an adept administrator of Windows/UNIX/Linux, shell scripting, GEMPAK, WRF/Workstation Eta modeling, web stuff. I then took a job in NC as an air quality meteorologist after 4 years in Iowa, then saw the announcement at NCEP/NCO. My experience at my job in Iowa pretty much got me my current position, because of my experience with shell scripting, computer administration and experience running numerical weather models. Plus always have stellar references. For me it was hard work and alot of luck, one thing led to another, and the pieces all fit together. I couldn't get a forecasting job at a WFO now probably, but I think I'm past that now anyway. I don't know exactly what to tell you about getting a job with the NWS now, other get an internship in school and be amazing at it, so that you have sterling references from it. Don't overlook the private sector, right out of school, get experience doing anything at all, anything computer related, GIS, community outreach, etc. And when you are somewhere and have stopped building skills, move on to another position. Don't be afraid to move anywhere. At the beginning of your career you shouldn't stay anywhere long. Build a resume with varied experience, everyone and their brother has a Met degree. Looking back, I'm sure my Met degree didn't get me any jobs, it was all the extra stuff that did and learned along the way that tipped the scales.

Let me say this. Every successful meteorologist, meaning every meteorologist that was happy with his/her career, that I have ever met, has known since they were young that they wanted to be a meteorologist. If you're doing it because it's interesting, you probably don't love it enough to persist. I find it's a calling, if you think of it as a hobby, maybe keep it a hobby.

When looking for work after graduation I applied for a job way out in the middle of the Pacific, I think at the Kwajalein missile range. They called my references but I didn't get called. Would have taken it! I ended up in Iowa.

Outside of which country? The US of A? Are you in one of those SiberiaFO positions?

I think in alot of cases internships are key to getting a job after graduation. Partly because of on-the-job experience you can put on your resume, but partly because sometimes they turn into actual jobs. I and three of my classmates got internships at NCAR at about the same time, mine unfortunately didn't but two of theirs turned into full-time jobs after graduation. The other guy is now the Chief Met at Colorado Springs TV station. But, my internship directly got me my first job, after I had turned down one position in Houston. Of course this was in 2000 when the job market wasn't so depressed. But I think with great grades, strong computer skills (Unix, shell scripting, Perl, FORTRAN), and a strong internship and yes, luck, you will be a shoo-in for finding work after graduation. It helps too to not be picky and to be able to move anywhere.