Hey, hope you folks don't mind a visit from an out-of-region poster (currently living near Rochester NY but did spend most of the 1990s in MD/VA) and this is probably more of a banter post, but the talk about math and meteorology caught my eye. I was fascinated by weather growing up and read every book I could find in the library. So I went ahead and studied meteorology eventually getting a PhD and working in applied research. Anyway, my recollection...and things may have changed since I got my BS in 1984...the math required for a BS wasn't all that bad. Yes, you need to be able to handle basic calculus but I don't remember anyone flunking out or having to change their major because of the math requirements. Some had more trouble than others, of course, but even if you struggled with the math classes you might be able to get through a met program.
Now, at the MS/PHD level things are different! First semester of grad school we all had to take "Intro to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics" taught by a theoretical guy. All the derivations were in tensor notation which many of us had never seen before. I believe a couple did drop out but most were able to get through even that. Lots of nonlinear equations, solving for eigenvectors...I was able to do it at the time but really have not used that stuff since.
Anyway, sorry for the off topic. I come to this forum regularly to read the discussions about long range patterns, which I think are the best on the entire forum.