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Originally Posted by AGDee
I'll have to share this info with him if he hasn't heard it already. Hopefully his second dream (meterologist on the weather channel) doesn't get blasted by some idiotic behavior on Jim Cantore's part.
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I have a former student who is in graduate school for meteorology or weather science or whatever it's called as an academic discipline. It's apparently typical for people who end up in the field to be drawn to it from a really early age.
I know that's true from some people in other fields, but think about how many kids want to veterinarians or marine biologists who don't end up doing it or the number of people who kind of happen into a particular field by process of elimination.
Not true for weather people, according to what this guy and his mom told me as he was looking into colleges. He had worked internships in the field even in high school, and pretty much everyone he met in the field had set up personal weather stations at home when they were kids and it had escalated from there.
I had never even thought that much about weather guys before knowing him.