Grab your barometers and thermometers, collegiettes™, and let’s predict the weather.
And what a perfect place to do it like Oswego, where the weather is constantly changing! Well, the meteorology club has got you covered…weather wise that is.
The club meets every other
Thursday in room 213A in Hewitt Union. On the alternate Thursdays the club will get together and do a student taught weather predicting session. The meteorology club has about 40 members, and each year they host a weather conference and go on a trip to other another conference. All of the members are welcome to attend.
When I walked into the met club meeting, I was surprised to see about 30 of these 40 members. Talk about an awesome turnout! The meeting was only about 20 minutes long; Sounds like a club any weather savvy person could enjoy.
“The main goal of meteorology club is to educate students of the SUNY Oswego campus in meteorology and to build connections with other universities,” says President Stephen Travis. “Every year we host a weatherfest for kids from the local school districts where we teach them more about meteorology and host a panel of speakers from the meteorology field.”
“Also, in the spring we hold the Great Lakes Atmospheric Science Symposium, which is a conference to bring together students and professionals in the meteorology field,” says Travis. “Last year at the conference, we had college students from three different universities and multiple professionals from around the state. About 10 SUNY Oswego students presented their research projects at this conference, as well.”
The club is very active not only in the campus community but in the local community as well. The met club also talked about taking donations for the Red Cross for areas in parts of the state that was badly damaged by tropical storms.
“The met club is awesome because everyone
loves the weather! Here in Oswego the weather always impacts our lives and I think that it’s important for the community to understand how meteorologists make forecasts and I think it’s just as important for the meteorologists to communicate clearly to the public,” said Travis.
“If people join the met club they will have a better understanding of how weather works and hopefully see how hard it is to actually be a meteorologist! Also, we have a lot of fun activities and are always open to new members!”
If windy weather predicting is what you crave, be sure to check out the met club website at: http://www.oswego.edu/news_weather/weather/ or email the president, Stephen Travis, at stravis@oswego.edu.