Weather Career: Meteorologists (Weather Blog 3)

A meteorologist's job or duty is to analyze, record, and observe the weather on a daily often hour by hour basis. Most meteorologists works at the government agency or the National Weather Service. Without a doubt, there are numerous companies that hire meteorologists to predict weather. Moreover, meteorologists do research on weather patterns, studies the atmosphere, the changes in climate in certain areas, problems in the environment, studies weather, analyzes the weathers effects on the environment, predicts the weather for a local for the next five days, and analyzes trends in climate. Furthermore, some of the specialties for meteorologists include: climatology, weather broadcasting, weather forecasting, working in the military, and meteorological oceanography.
Not to mention, meteorologists uses data from radar, satellites, sensors, and computers to make their weather predictions. Moreover, meteorologists who work at a local news stations will need to work on the weekends and weekends and sometimes at night. Furthermore, meteorologists who work in a small office will often work alone instead of working in a team. Additionally, meteorologists will need to travel or do fieldwork if he or she is employed in a private company. Meteorologists often times uses computers to analyze weather data such as wind speed, dew point, humidity, pressure, temperature, and wind direction.
In addition, some of the essential subjects that meteorologists need to take include: math, computer science, english, physics, chemistry, environmental science, and biology. Basically, it is important to be well educated in the math and science fields. Meteorologists should be proficient at using the computer because much of their work involves using the computer. Furthermore, it is essential to know to communicate your thoughts and ideas that could be easily understood by the audience.
Above all, a bachelor's degree in meteorology or atmospheric sciences is often required or highly recommended for working in the field of meteorology. A masters degree of PhD is often needed for researching or management position jobs. Some of the courses that meteorologists take in college include: physics, calculus, chemistry, biology, environmental sciences, and computer programming. Furthrmore, economists expect the jobs available or open for meteorologists to grow through until 2020. There is going to be a lot of competition when looking for a job and it would give one an advantage when he or she has a graduate degree. The largest amount of jobs available for meteorologists would be in the private market that demands specialized weather forecasts. However, if one wants to become a technician in the field of meteorology, then a bachelors degree in the field of meteorology is not required. Furthermore, these meteorological technicians needs to take and finish courses that are in the technical level of difficulty. Moreover, meteorologists often does research on the oceans and the atmosphere of the planet earth and their main job is to forecast the weather diseases such as storms, hurricanes, blizzards, snow storms, tornadoes, and thunderstorms to the best of their ability.
In addition, the average annual salary according to the bureau of labor statistics for meteorologists is $89,260.

References: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/meteorology/?ar_a=1
                   https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/careers/science-meteorologists