OT: For you weather nerds the MSU storm chasing team shot this video..
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when they see a tornado. It's usually destroying parts of somebody's farm and potentially killing people, and they're high-fiving and laughing.
That tornado was over farmland like the majority of tornadoes. It's pretty rare tornadoes hit populated areas given the amount of tornadoes that are in the US each year. The building to me looked like a farm building that hopefully was evacuated and most people in the great plains have storm cellars and watch the weather so they don't always die. It's okay to get excited about a tornado. I know I would.<div>
I actually was a meteorology major for a semester so maybe that's why I'm getting defensive.</div>
I actually was a meteorology major for a semester so maybe that's why I'm getting defensive.</div>
Mississippi storm chasers wouldn't get excited about Tornadoes. Only MSU stormchasers get excited and pray they hit occupied homes.
Sarcasm meter broken? I really can't imagine him being serious about that statement.MSUBully1 said:
because in the deep south we don't have the opportunity to see many twisters. I think they have the right to get a little excited, especially since it looks like it wasn't effecting anyone at the moment. It's a little different when you watch that Storm Chasers show and see that Reed Timmer guy screaming like a little girl every time he intercepts a tornado.
*// I am/was a meteorlogy major, and I agree, even though getting footage of a twister is rare, I think it's pretty ridiculous when chasers act like children, especially if it's impacting someone. It's one thing to be in shock and awe of the power of the thing, but it's another to run around screaming "this is 17n awesome. 17 yeah. look at it ripping that house to shreds" etc..
*// I am/was a meteorlogy major, and I agree, even though getting footage of a twister is rare, I think it's pretty ridiculous when chasers act like children, especially if it's impacting someone. It's one thing to be in shock and awe of the power of the thing, but it's another to run around screaming "this is 17n awesome. 17 yeah. look at it ripping that house to shreds" etc..
That team was mostly made up with students who had probably never seen a tornado before and thus got a little excited. Furthemore, that team had mostly likely already notified the local authorities and weather service in an attempt to save any lives that might be affected by the tornado.
I can't believe anyone would actually think I was serious with that statement. "Mississippi" stood for UM if you guys didn't get that either. <div>Bullyfan87 said:
</div><div>And yes when your trying to find something days on end and you finally find it, in this case a tornado, you're going to get excited.</div>
I'm a meteorology major or was until I graduated from there on May 1st of this year..I will be doing GIS in graduate school and hopefully starting soon with the National Weather Service in the upcoming month doing a SCEP position where I work for 640 hrs then have a set job with them..I'll work here in Jackson..Anyway, as a meteorology major you are passionate about certain types of weather..Me its hurricanes and tornadoes..I think they are amazing and I love to even see severe storms the structure and if there is a tornado thats even cooler..However you are always hopeful that it stays in a field and doesn't hit anything. I went on the annual storm chase last year and we saw one in Tonkawa, OK during a very quiet tornado season where only 12 tornadoes formed in the whole Great Plains in the 17 days we were out there..We saw a sweet storm that almost produced a tornado that had big hail which we accidentally almost drove into, a tornado that didn't hit anything and was rated an EF0 due to no structures being impacted, and an amazing supercell that never produced any type of tornado. However this year they have seen 5 tornadoes and chased almost every day due to the developing La Nina pattern and the synoptic scale trough being set up over the Great Plains due also to blocking in the Arctic regions of the Atlantic. This causes the troughs/ridges to stay in place and they can't move from west to east..Thus its going to be active out there the whole time..I know David Wolter who sent this video in and he will be volunteering with the NWS in Jackson when he gets back from his chase with me..I'll be getting paid while he won't, but I will say they've had an amazing storm chase..Here is their blog:http://msustorms.blogspot.com/<div>And another thing, I haven't seen much recognition for our meteorology program..I hear about the engineering, agriculture, etc but our meteorology program is one of the best in the nation..We did win the Wxchallenge.com forecasting competition over MIT this year and won last year as well and have placed in the top 2 the past 4 years and the top 4 the past 8 years...Our teachers are spectacular and have us ready to forecast better than University of Oklahoma, which is more research..I've heard that we are one of the best suited to begin immediately forecasting on the job than many schools throughout the nation..Our broadcast program is one of the best in the nation with many at the Weather Channel and big stations nationwide..Every teacher is fairly young and funny but they teach their stuff well..I will say though one teacher graduated in Physics as his bachelors so he is very tough to learn from teaching Thermodynamics and Dynamics II...There is math in meteorology too, nothing like my engineering buddies but its not a pushover..I had to take up to Differential Equations w/o Calculus 4 for some reason and up to Physics II...Anyway here are links to the personalities from MSU that are on the Weather Channel:</div><div>Kelly Cass:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Kelly-Cass.html</div><div>Betty Davis:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Betty-Davis.html</div><div>Ryan Goswick:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Ryan-Goswick.html</div><div>Carl Parker:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Carl-Parker.html</div><div>Nick Walker:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Nick-Walker.html</div><div>Alex Wallace:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/Alex-Wallace.html</div><div>Chris Warren:http://www.weather.com/tv/personalities/ChrisWarren.html</div><div>
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