Gaylord meteorologists face special weather challenges National Weather Service staff puts in long hours to get accurate predictions Photo by Keith Vandervort John Boris and other Gaylord meteorologists launch weather balloons at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day. Their ultimate challenge stares back at them from the high windows lining the computer-packed room.
Nature looms out there.
Inside the walls of the National Weather Service Station, the meteorologists try to tame her by predicting her path and warning the world. They use the highest-tech computers, data collection, satellite images and modeling programs to create their forecasts. Ultimately, though, a well-trained meteorologist with all the tools of the trade sits down and makes a very educated, very historically consistent, very statistically sound guess. Most of the time the forecasters are right, said Brian Hirsh, warning coordination meteorologist. It either rains 100 percent at your house or it rains zero percent at your house.