@sailadjusted asked: "// This is such a stupid question but are you actually a meteorologist because that’s fucking sick, what do you do for work? Being a meteorologist used to be my dream job"
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To answer the first part of the question, yes, I am an actual meteorologist! Spent six years in school getting my Bachelor's of Science and Master's of Science in meteorology, and it is what I do now for a job.
I'll try to briefly explain my job, but I do not work on TV as a broadcast met or work for the National Weather Service (despite me having wanted to do that for a VERY long time). I work now for an insurance company where I model catastrophes (primarily being natural ones such as tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, etc.) for the people writing the insurance policies for large businesses/properties such as Walmart, hotels, etc.
The basic idea is that if one of those people writing an insurance policy comes to me wanting to know how high the losses/damage would be for a hotel in Florida if a hurricane hit, I would be the one to help. Basically, I would take that hotel's location in Florida, the total value of the property (so how much everything is worth inside the hotel and what the building itself is worth), and check out the damage/loss results that were generated based on our models.
I give what I found back to the person who is trying to write the insurance policy, who will use the loss data I generated to determine how much the policy should cover, which natural disasters it should cover, and so on. I don't do anything beyond that, but it has been fairly interesting as it's not what I thought I would do with my degree.
