Richard Hoffman
News12 Meteorologist
www.richhoffman.net

So you want to be a meteorologist?

You need a 4-year degree with emphasis on Math and Science. Which means Calculus, chemistry and Physics.

Very good online weather guide:
Study Guide 1 - 10th Edition
Study Guide 2 - 9th Edition
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/

Weather Schools:
National Weather Service - http://www.nws.noaa.gov/careers.php
University at Albany - http://www.atmos.albany.edu
Lyndon State College - http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/
Oneonta State - http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/wxclub/N66.HTML
Penn State - http://www.met.psu.edu/
SUNY Stony Brook - http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/
NYU - http://www.nyu.edu/cas/dept/math.htm
Rutgers - http://www.wx.rutgers.edu/
Cornell - http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Ithaca/Weather/
Western Connecticut State - http://vax.wcsu.edu/weather/local.htm, http://vax.wcsu.edu/physics/meteorology.html
Oswego State - http://www.oswego.edu/news_weather/weather/
Mississippi State - http://www.theweatherprediction.com/

Science Organizations
American Meteorological Society - http://www.ametsoc.org/
National Weather Association - http://www.nwas.org/
American Meteorological Society for students - http://www.ametsoc.org/amsstudentinfo/index.html
List of Weather Schools from AMS- http://www.ametsoc.org/curricula/index.html
National Weather Association School List - http://www.nwas.org/links/careers.html

Computer Models Meteorologists use to forecast:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/ - National Weather Service
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ - National Hurricane Center
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/deas/wx.html SUNY Albany Computer Data
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/progs/ - Aviation Weather Center
http://atmos.msrc.sunysb.edu/npages/weather.html -SUNY Stony Brook Computer data
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ - Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/maproom/ - US map room
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ National Centers for Environmental Prediction
http://weather.cod.edu/forecast/ - Computer models from Dupage College
http://weather.unisys.com/index.html - Unisys Weather Forecast Products
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/ - National Weather Service - Long Island
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/mos2.shtml - Text Data from National Weather Service
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml - University of Illinois
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/synop/products.shtml - More Text data from NWS