A personal visit to the employer or school is only partly so that you can see what the business or school is like. Be careful, since a single visit may not reliably gauge a company or school. Probably the greater value of a personal visit is to introduce you to the people at the company or school. A personal visit is not as critical for getting into a graduate school, but you should definitely target a particular professor or two at each school that interests you. You need to convince him or her that you would be the best student that he or she could find.
Job hunting is often harder work than a job.
No school or job is perfect. Because there are so many factors involved with any school or job, you can't expect everything to be perfect. To a large measure, though, you'll get out what you put in. Meteorology salaries in the private sector Private sector jobs in meteorology involve areas such as forecasting, TV weathercasting, air pollution, environmental impact, computer programming, agricultural commodities, and expert testimony in court cases. A survey compiled by the American Meteorological Society has estimated the distribution of salaries in the private sector as a function of how long one has worked.