People probably have noticed the lack of posts since Friday on AspieWeb, well I had a very busy weekend and an unscheduled job interview that happened with almost no notice.
On my other blog I wrote about my job interview that happened this morning. The interview went really well, and I’m looking forward to hearing back from them – when I do I will post the information on Autism Job Hunt.
On the AspieWeb side of thing – I have added a bit more advertising, but am trying to keep the annoyance level of the advertising down to a minimum. This is mainly due to me having bills, and no job right now. I encourage you to click advertisements that interest you.
Me in the NWS Lobby
And now here the awesome part, I went to the National Weather Service’s Weather Forecast Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The national weather service is a government agency that is charged with forecasting weather and providing warnings and advisories of weather related incidents such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards or what happened to be happening while I was there – A Winter Storm deserving of the Winter Storm Warning.
Saturday was SKYWARN Recognition day – a day where the meteorologists play host to the storm spotters and chasers that help them from the field while they sit in there very comfortable chairs at their workstations. Its a really nice thing to be able to meet the people you talk to on the phone when reporting wall clouds, hail and other severe weather events. The meteorologists were very good hosts buying Pizza for us, giving us a tour of their facilities. The weather stations were quite cool – and operate of Redhat Linux Enterprise Edition (for those that care). Most had 3-4 screens at their workstation and they showed us what
Meteorologist Workstatio
they were working on for the latest forecast. One of the meteorologists was nice enough to give me a tour of his workstation, which I recorded on my iPhone (with awful camera work I might add – but I’ve never done it before.) (VIEW MOVIE). After he game me a tour I hopped on their radio really quickly to chat with a friend who was supposed to be coming up as well, and learned he was sick.
While doing that I got snow reports for them as well from various other people on the radio, as they were having trouble getting people on the phone. This helps them because radar estimates are not always accurate – so they like to verify their warnings with ground observations.
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