I can never look at weather the same way again.

My life is forever changed. I will never be able to look at the world around me the same way ever again. It's because I'm a student of meteorology. Whenever I go outside, look out a window, or hear something about the weather, I think of the plethora of things that I've learned. When I look at clouds, I think thinks like cumulonimbus or stratiform, when I feel the humidity, I think dew point, and when I think snow, I think "Why is the best weather school in the nation in Mississippi?". I will never be able to blindly observe the weather without thinking about all the theories and laws behind nature's atmospheric processes...for the rest of my life. It's permanent. I know it.

The last thought I'll leave this post with is the other way my perspective has changed by being a student of the weather. Bad weather is good. The wose the weather is, the better it is for the meteorologist. We get into this mode of saying "Oh boy, an F4 tornado is only 15 miles away!" What sane person says something like that? I've only been a meteorology student for a few months, but already I think in those terms. Of course I don't want bad things to happen to anyone, but it is so exciting to track hurricanes, spot tornadoes, and predict other types of severe weather using all the resources at our disposal. It's fun. But it's also a bit morbid. Weird, eh?