Such winds in Delmarva are considered severe when they exceed 50 miles per hour, which they do something like 10 times each year, mostly in summer, he says. Leathers also studies hurricanes from June to November and nor'easters along the coast at other times of the year. Delaware's state climatologist is appointed by the governor, after a review of his or her qualifications by the National Weather Service. Climatologists across the country, most of them associated with universities, exchange information with the Weather Service and help keep state archives up to date. They want to make the forecast as good as possible.
Climatologists go in the other direction.
We archive data for the state and put the weather in some kind of historical perspective. While weather specialists begin by studying the same things in college, meteorologists often are more interested in weather forecasting. They take one storm and try to collect as much data as they can. Climatologists want to look at a whole group of storms. And, it's a very diverse field.