The lab has been designed to be used for classroom instruction, research, course assignments, and personal interest. It consists primarily of 21 Pentium workstations for student use and an instructor's workstation at the front of the lab. The instructor's computer is connected to an overhead projection system. The new met lab is one part of a sophisticated computer network which allows users to perform a multitude of tasks and acquires and stores a wide variety of meteorological data. These software packages allow students to analyze, overlay, and animate current hourly weather observations, satellite pictures, radar images, and upper air observations.
All machines have internet access.
The department is continually upgrading its equipment to keep up with the latest technological developments. Students have the opportunity to develop weather forecast and presentation skills in conjunction with the college weather-phone, radio station, and television station. Real-time weather information is made available to the LSC and Vermont State College communities through the LSC Meteorology WWW server .