Month of Thanksgiving 2018, Day 8

Today Mr. Sean is thankful for

The Weather

For as much as I don't like the rain, I'm thankful for the variety of weather that can be experienced and that mid-latitude weather tends to not be the same day after day in most places (sorry deserts). I'm especially thankful for the canvas that is the sky and how it changes daily and even on a dime sometimes. The variety of cloud shapes will never bore me.

Month of Thanksgiving 2018, Day 7

Today Mr. Sean is thankful for

Millersville University Meteorology 2018

It's been about six months since Commencement 2018, but most days since then haven't been as fun as the days I spent with these awesome people. Even though I was an outsider, having been a part of MU Meteorology 2017 until I failed Dynamics 1 the first time, I was welcomed into this group quite readily. I only wish that there were more than 24 hours in a day as Dynamics 1 and 2, Synoptic, and Mesoscale Meteorology classes were so much fun with MU Meteorology 2018. Also, Drs. Clark, DeCaria, Sikora, and Yalda were/are some of the best professors at Millersville if you ask me. Though I'm sorry Dr. Sikora that you saw my strong liking of food with the various desktop backgrounds I had on the computer. 

P.S. If anybody knows who exactly took this photo, please let me know, I need to give them credit.

An Apology and an Update

Playing cards all neatly organized by deck

I apologize to all my readers for not posting recently, but even with me trying to stay organized a lot has been going on in the past month that has been putting me to the test. I had my second set of exams to contend with, Real Analysis was brutal and I'm thankful for the group study sessions for Synoptic Meteorology. For those who don't know, Synoptic Meteorology focuses on meteorological (weather) phenomena on the synoptic scale, defined to be on the order of about 1000 kilometers. Dr. Sikora sometimes goes fast in his lectures, at other times he's rather patient, but all the time he has faith in our ability to grasp the concepts even if I don't feel like I grasped the concept. There has also been a special student research project called SEAR-MAR. We managed to convince the nice people at the University of Wyoming to bring their King Air airplane over to the Eastern Seaboard so that students from Penn State, Rutgers, UMBC, and Millersville University had a great opportunity to do some hands-on research. Some students such as I kept our feet on the ground with set-up of instruments and forecasting duties while other students got to fly in the King Air. Although the King Air went home to Wyoming, the students will have a lot of data to sift through, our work isn't finished yet! Good thing for my bullet journal in that I can keep track of most of what's going on in my life.

Math, without numbers

This sheet of paper contains an important idea in terms of meteorology. From the two equations of horizontal momentum (one for east-west, one for north south), this paper contains the derivation of something called the vorticity equation. I could explain the process but I'm just posting this on my blog because this is essentially math, but without numbers as most people are used to seeing. Thank goodness my higher level mathematics courses such as Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, and Partial Differential Equations still use numbers.