Craig82

I'm actually a current graduate student at Mississippi State in the Department of Geosciences, although on the Geology side (note: the department also includes Geography and Geospatial Sciences). While I don't know a lot about the Meteo professors, I can tell you that there is a lot more focus on severe thunderstorms than winter weather within the Department (for obvious reasons*), although Dr. Wood is pretty well known for hurricane research. There is a heavy focus on broadcast meteorology (roughly 1/3rd of all TV mets are graduates, inlcuding Ed Hanna, among others, locally), but that would be stronger for online and non-funded master's students. As a funded student, you'd probably have a somewhat different focus, and you'd likely be teaching geography (potentially geology or GIS depending on your background) labs unless it is an RA. I could tell you more about the program or Starkville if you have specific questions. On a Lehigh Valley note, Dr. Sherman-Morris is originally from Easton. *-There will be a half dozen times per winter where it snows/sleets, but it accumulates maybe once per year. It actually does start accumulating just a bit to the north, though. There are even snowplow attachments in larger towns in the extreme northern part of Mississippi and western Tennessee!

NWS up to 18-24" here in Moore Township, Northampton County.

Starkville tornado passed extremely close to my apartment (probably within 1 mile), but I received no damage. When I returned from my shelter at MSU, I encountered flash flooding at my apartment complex. #WhatANight