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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9221 Postby txagwxman » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:24 pm

Travis Herzog - Has a Bachelors degree in meteorology from Texas A&M (also graduated with a 4.0 GPA).


Not bad Travis Herzog...and meteorology at A&M is very tough.
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#9222 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:24 pm

Ntxw wrote:
FWIW, my avatar is from the NAM the night before that event. I can't recall which run though.


It's possible that the NAM did better than the GFS for a few runs. The GFS did tend to lose the moisture for a bit close to the event.
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9223 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:26 pm

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Travis Herzog - Has a Bachelors degree in meteorology from Texas A&M (also graduated with a 4.0 GPA).


Not bad Travis Herzog...and meteorology at A&M is very tough.


There were about 10 of us in Dr. Das' Atmospheric Dynamics class and only one of us could understand much of what he was saying. And I'm not talking about his English skills. That was a hard class.
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9224 Postby txagwxman » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:37 pm

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Travis Herzog - Has a Bachelors degree in meteorology from Texas A&M (also graduated with a 4.0 GPA).


Not bad Travis Herzog...and meteorology at A&M is very tough.


There were about 10 of us in Dr. Das' Atmospheric Dynamics class and only one of us could understand much of what he was saying. And I'm not talking about his English skills. That was a hard class.

Dr. Das was very tough. As was Panetta for Dynamics. Dr. N-G was tough too. I had Steve Lyons for tropical, and Zipser.
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#9225 Postby TeamPlayersBlue » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:43 pm

Frank with channel 2 is prolly my favorite. I used to write emails to him about upcoming events and 90% of the time he would write back. The times he wouldn't, it was likely because he was swamped with emails from the system.
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#9226 Postby txagwxman » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:49 pm

TeamPlayersBlue wrote:Frank with channel 2 is prolly my favorite. I used to write emails to him about upcoming events and 90% of the time he would write back. The times he wouldn't, it was likely because he was swamped with emails from the system.


Yes he is good...my favorite was (is) Dave Schwartz at TWC. He is hilarious.
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9227 Postby HockeyTx82 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:55 pm

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wxman57 wrote:
Travis Herzog - Has a Bachelors degree in meteorology from Texas A&M (also graduated with a 4.0 GPA).


There were about 10 of us in Dr. Das' Atmospheric Dynamics class and only one of us could understand much of what he was saying. And I'm not talking about his English skills. That was a hard class.

Dr. Das was very tough. As was Panetta for Dynamics. Dr. N-G was tough too. I had Steve Lyons for tropical, and Zipser.


I actually have been looking into go to A&M. Right out of high school I was all ready to go. I had visited the campus and the department, but I ended up going to UNT. :(

Perhaps in the next few years I will pursure my dream. Any advice you all can give me?
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#9228 Postby HockeyTx82 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:58 pm

txagwxman wrote:
TeamPlayersBlue wrote:Frank with channel 2 is prolly my favorite. I used to write emails to him about upcoming events and 90% of the time he would write back. The times he wouldn't, it was likely because he was swamped with emails from the system.


Yes he is good...my favorite was (is) Dave Schwartz at TWC. He is hilarious.


What about this guy?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt_IP93B2QE[/youtube]
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9229 Postby Nederlander » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:10 pm

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I actually have been looking into go to A&M. Right out of high school I was all ready to go. I had visited the campus and the department, but I ended up going to UNT. :(

Perhaps in the next few years I will pursure my dream. Any advice you all can give me?


Well I will tell you one thing. I graduated in the top ten percent of my high school class out of about 400 students. I only made it through one year of the A&M Meteorolgy Program. The O&M classes werent too bad. They have a weather forecasting lab thats real fun and then an Atmospheric Science class thats pretty easy. The difficulty is with the MATH! Ive always been sharp at math but i flunked this class with flying colors. This was just the first math class and the name of it was something like Theoretical Calculus and Trigonometry (something like that). It wasnt just solving equations, it was like IF _____ THEN ____.. but on an astronomical scale. Some of the problems were like a page long.. It was insanely hard, and I knew it was only going to get worse from there. So thats what put my met. dreams to rest. Not enough money to live through that mess for four years. But if you dedicate yourself, you can do it. I just wasnt prepared for what I had in front of me..
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9230 Postby Portastorm » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:26 pm

:uarrow:

I know this is still OT but the dialogue has me intrigued. About five or six years into my journalism career, I seriously considered going back to school to get a meteorology degree. I went to A&M and spent a day there visiting with a few friends and with a few professors, including the dean of the met school. He gave me a very blunt assessment that there would be tons of difficult math and physics courses and that me, being an English major who loved weather, might find myself over my head.

Needless to say, he told me enough that I figured I would be in trouble and that I should probably keep my "day job." Besides that, my then orangeblood girlfriend-now wife said she didn't know if she could handle living in College Station with all the Aggies! :lol:
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9231 Postby jasons2k » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:30 pm

Extremeweatherguy wrote:
Yeah, most of the mets in Houston tend to have Mississippi State certificates..which are not equivalent to a meteorology degree.

Here is what I found when I took a peek at their bios...

KHOU
Gene Norman (chief met) - Has a bachelors degree from MIT and a masters degree in meteorology from the University of Maryland.
David Paul - Has a bachelors degree in English from the University of Texas and a Bachelors degree in Geo-Science from Mississippi state.
Mario Gomez - Has a bachelors degree in meteorology from the University of Colorado.

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Frank Billingsley (chief met) - Has a broadcast meteorology certificate from Mississippi state. He also graduated from Washington and Lee Universities, but does not have meteorology-related degrees from those institutions.
Anthony Yanez - Has a broadcast meteorology certificate from Mississippi state. He also graduated from the University of New Mexico, but does not have a meteorology-related degree from that institution.

KTRK
Tim Heller (chief met) - Has a broadcast meteorology certificate from Mississippi state. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Communications from Clarke College.
David Tillman - Has a bachelors degree in meteorology from Jackson State University.
Casey Curry - Has a broadcast meteorology certificate from Mississippi state. She also holds a Bachelors degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado.
Travis Herzog - Has a Bachelors degree in meteorology from Texas A&M (also graduated with a 4.0 GPA).


What I find most interesting about this is that Gene Norman has the most impressive "paper credentials" of the list...and yet...I'll just say this so I don't break our own forum rules....I cannot tell you how many times during Ike I thought Dr. Frank looked like he was going to slap him (or I wanted to throw something at the TV). I just can't watch KHOU on weeknights anymore...which is sad...b/c I actually like the anchors on there (Greg and Lucy).

I do think Frank and Tim do an excellent job, even if they don't have B.S. Degrees in Meteorology.

Still, I wish more stations ran their weather centers like KXAS-Channel 5 in DFW and WTVT-Channel 13 in Tampa, where if you don't have the credentials, you don't even get an interview. Harold Taft and Roy Leep are the gold standards in broadcast meterology in my mind. James Spann (in AL) is another good one too.
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9232 Postby Storm Tracker SA-CS » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:49 pm

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wxman57 wrote:I agree, our chances (Houston) of any more winter precip are diminishing quickly. Can't rule it out, as we have had some snow even well into March on at least one occasion. For now, it looks like we can enjoy cold rain with temps in the 40s for the next few weeks. It's about time to move over to the Talkin' Tropics forum to get ready for hurricane season. I think things are shaping up for a very active 2010 season in the Atlantic Basin.

Yes, with nino fading, and sea surface temps above normal all across eastern Atlantic basin, could be a much more interesting season. But who really knows for sure.


do yall think that texas will get hit with a hurricane this summer, or is it too early to tell? i love tracking hurricanes!
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9233 Postby Storm Tracker SA-CS » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:51 pm

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txagwxman wrote:
Travis Herzog - Has a Bachelors degree in meteorology from Texas A&M (also graduated with a 4.0 GPA).


Not bad Travis Herzog...and meteorology at A&M is very tough.


There were about 10 of us in Dr. Das' Atmospheric Dynamics class and only one of us could understand much of what he was saying. And I'm not talking about his English skills. That was a hard class.


Yeah I'm a freshman meteorology major at A&M right now and it is pretty tough.
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9234 Postby Tejas89 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:56 pm

Dave Schwartz at TWC


I was watching TWC many moons ago, and Dave had a story about being in a tin building in Arizona during a fierce high desert hail storm. He got this crazy look in his eyes after the story and added, "Folks, I've never been the same since that event."

LOL
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9235 Postby Nederlander » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:00 pm

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txagwxman wrote:
wxman57 wrote:I agree, our chances (Houston) of any more winter precip are diminishing quickly. Can't rule it out, as we have had some snow even well into March on at least one occasion. For now, it looks like we can enjoy cold rain with temps in the 40s for the next few weeks. It's about time to move over to the Talkin' Tropics forum to get ready for hurricane season. I think things are shaping up for a very active 2010 season in the Atlantic Basin.

Yes, with nino fading, and sea surface temps above normal all across eastern Atlantic basin, could be a much more interesting season. But who really knows for sure.


do yall think that texas will get hit with a hurricane this summer, or is it too early to tell? i love tracking hurricanes!

Dude, this would be nearly impossible to forecast, predict, or guess... The only thing we can do is predict the activity this season. Some have said that above average SST's in the Atlantic Basin plus a fading el nino is a pretty ripe formula.. But anything can happen.. we could have ridge after ridge set up.. or minimal ridges.. you never know where these things will go until a few days out.. and even thats sketchy sometimes... But I hope not.. Ive had my fair share of them down here on the coast.. lost a home on Bolivar to Ike..
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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9236 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:04 pm

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Yeah I'm a freshman meteorology major at A&M right now and it is pretty tough.


The freshman year is the easiest. The only hard class is Biology 101 with the pre-med students. Do they still require that course? I had a job in the weather station working for Charlie Brenton plotting synoptic maps and Skew-Ts for the advanced classes. Learned a lot from him, too.

I'd say that if it is a degree you really want to pursue, then go for it. What's the worst that will happen? You may need to switch majors after a while and decide to pursue another degree. Or you could go after a broadcast degree like some of the TV personalities and be an on-air person. That doesn't require the math.

Too bad the schools don't have a meteorology degree program for those who just love the weather and don't want to do anything that might actually require knowledge of all that math. It's been 30 years after leaving A&M and I haven't once had to solve a differential equation or integrate anything.
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#9237 Postby Bryant44 » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:34 pm

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Re: Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

#9238 Postby WeatherKing » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:46 pm

I took an atmospheric science class at North Texas, Wasn't too difficult.
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#9239 Postby DentonGal » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:57 pm

Are the models showing anything new for DFW Friday or Monday?
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#9240 Postby Ntxw » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:04 pm

DentonGal wrote:Are the models showing anything new for DFW Friday or Monday?


If we get lucky, could get some flurries tomorrow, but that's a big IF. Chances would be better along and north of the red river. Surface temperatures will be too warm for much.
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