Weather Committee

Meets on third Tuesday of each month
National Weather Service
120 David L. Boren Blvd.
Chair(s): Kevin Kloesel and Carrie Burleson
Staff: Kyla McMoran

FY 2011-12 Weather Committee Goals

Goal #1:  Provide leadership within the Norman weather community via regular meetings that serve as a crossroads for all stakeholders.

Goal #2:  Educate Norman residents and the State’s citizenry regarding the weather enterprise and ways in which it contributes to economic growth and improves quality of life.

Goal #3:  Continue promoting creation of the National Weather Museum and Science Center in Norman

Goal #4:  Continue sponsoring and helping organize the National Weather Festival.

Goal #5:  Encourage participation of non-meteorology professionals on the Chamber Weather Committee and increase the participation of graduate and undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines.

New “Stretch” Goal

Leveraging Oklahoma’s diverse, formidable resources and levels of awareness in weather and climate, we propose to organize a bi-yearly symposium, known provisionally as “National Conference on the US Weather and Climate Enterprise,” that would engage industry, government and academia in a discussion of key issues facing the enterprise and ways in which the multi-faceted community can address them.  Held at the National Weather Center building, one major outcome would be an authoritative biennial report, State of the Weather and Climate Enterprise, that assesses the overall status of the enterprise from a mostly though not exclusively quantitative standpoint (economic impact, research productivity, workforce trends, compelling societal needs, new initiatives, challenges) for informing national policy.

National Weather Festival info here

Job Shadow Initiative

Goal: To expand the job shadow opportunity for Cleveland County high school students throughout the Norman Weather Community.

Job Shadowing helps students make the classroom-career connection!

Potential meteorology jobs to shadow include forecasters, weather researchers, technicians, video production, and public relations.

Norman Weather Community Businesses:
Does your business or agency want to participate in the Job Shadow Initiative? To get started, complete a short survey. Thank you!

Cleveland County High Schools:
- Are you a principal, counselor, or teacher in Cleveland County, and want to provide a job shadowing opportunity for your students?

Please send the following information to Andrea Melvin, andrea@mesonet.org

• Name of high school
• Name of high school counselor and principal
• Counselor’s email address and phone number
• If known, the number of students interested in job shadowing

Are you a high school student in Cleveland County who wants to job shadow in a meteorology career?  Please contact your school counselor and have them provide the above list of contact information to Andrea Melvin, andrea@mesonet.org