Special Announcement: OU’s 2010 Senior Synoptic Class Blog

Posted by on 10 Nov 2010 | 0 comments

As many readers know, in all my spare time I assist with the University of Oklahoma’s School of Meteorology’s Senior Synoptic Meteorology course. As a student of the atmosphere, I love being able to talk about and teach interesting facets of day-to-day weather. That’s part of why I started the 365 project!

One component of the Synoptic Meteorology curriculum is to improve students’ abilities to communicate with various audiences. One of the ways this is being done is through the use of student blogs. The Synoptic professor, Dr. Kevin Kloesel, and I will occasionally give the seniors a topic, typically a forecast problem, to discuss in a 500-words-or-less blog post. The first of these assignments was issued today regarding the upcoming southern plains precipitation event.

Please take a moment to read through some of the student’s blogs and leave comments regarding things you like, dislike, or take issue with. Again, part of this exercise is to have students work on taking complex meteorological information and convey it in such a manner that others can understand. Feel free to challenge them!

You can find the blog posts here: 2010 OU Senior Synoptic Blog. Each student has a unique username to allow readers to distinguish between authors.