>> I love that I still get to stay in technical aspects of weather.
But to be completely honest, with you as a forecaster,
it's very much hours sitting behind a computer writing and not really interacting
with too many people unless there was an active weather event going on.
So, in my current job, I get to be on a large team
that manages how the weather service brands itself and is moving forward as an agency,
and I'm in meetings all day, and I love interacting with my team
and our external stakeholders when available.
I can say that no weather event really takes us by surprise, but the impacts
and how society reacts often does.
So, for instance, this past January we had a three-day winter storm in the Northeast,
and our forecast was right on for Boston and areas south.
But when it came down to New York and Philadelphia,
we had kind of over forecasted those amounts.
And the lash back that we got on that was actually quite surprising given, yes,
we were calling for two feet in New York City.
They got nine inches, which is still, you know, a substantial amount of snow.
So, you know, the challenge is really working the messaging and being able to convey the risks
and the impacts that are involved.
Not just getting the forecast right,
but actually helping people understand what that means to them.