PHOTOS: Storm observation class a whirlwind experience for Meteorology students
Future forecasters travel thousands of miles in roving lab to study behavior and impacts of severe weather.
Armed with cameras, hand-held weather sensors and the latest in streaming weather-observation technology, Meteorology students at Metropolitan State University of Denver hit the road, pursuing the ultimate thunderstorms: supercells. Traveling thousands of miles in a roving weather lab, the future forecasters gain valuable insights into the behavior and impacts of the severe weather they will build their future careers predicting.
Scott Landolt, Ph.D., an affiliate professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, cautions that this is not a storm-chasing class. “It’s important for students to relate what they are learning in class about interpreting observations,” Landolt said, “including weather radar imagery, and to understand what those storms look like in person.”
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