Adjunct Professor Sankey Blanton, who has been teaching Meteorological Subjects during the Winter Terms, uses his summer non-teaching time to complete COMET Online Courses. In May, he completed the “MSC Winter Weather: Atlantic Region Course.” This course is composed eight modules, including: “Freezing, Melting, Precipitation Type and Numerical Weather Prediction,” “Inverted Troughs and Their Associated Precipitation Regimes,” “Slantwise Convection: An Operational Approach,” “Topics in Precipitation Type Forecasting,” “Topics in Lake Effect Snow Forecasting,” “Ten Common NWP Misconceptions,” “Heavy Banded Snow,” and “Isentropic Analysis.”
Although the COMET Program was developed to provide continuing education for professional meteorologists and forecasters, academics, military and emergency management personnel (as well as most of Professor Blanton’s students) have found the modules very informative about weather topics and presented in a comfortable, well designed and illustrated format. The Web site for the COMET/MetEd program is linked below.