I'm in synoptic meteorology 1 and it is the "senior" class of the meteorology program and it is where you put all of your knowledge from all of the other classes into one class and apply it to current weather. We have to do a briefing about 3 times this semester and it is a big deal! The briefing is where you get in front of the class and talk about the weather for 10-13 minutes.....for those who know me, know that this is a big deal for me since I don't like to talk in front of people.
Yesterday (Tuesday) I did my first briefing (a practice one that was not graded) and it was not that bad. It takes a lot of time to put it together though...I worked on it from about 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM with a 30 minute lunch break. A forecast for the next 24 hours must be done as well for a pre-selected city from the professor. My city (and the city for the whole week) was Portland, Maine. The city selection is based off of some weather event occurring or about to occur. A cold front was about to move over the city, therefore that city was selected. Last week we had Cherry Point, NC because of Hurricane Earl.
I felt really good about my briefing. I knew most of the stuff that Dr. Blackwell asked me or at least had some general knowledge about the topics. He said that certain charts that I did turned out to be really good and pretty accurate. So good job me on the first briefing...three more to go!
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