An Interview with a Hurricane Hunter
by Joe LaTona
Last week I spoke with Karla Williams, a hurricane hunter from Miami, Florida.
JL: How did you obtain this job? KW: I was working as a meteorologist. Then I saw a movie called Storm Chasers. It was about hurricane hunters scientists who fly into hurricanes to do research. I thought that it would be a very interesting job. Then two months later I saw an ad for a hurricane researcher. 1 applied and got the job. JL: What do you like most about being a hurricane hunter? KW: I like working with the other scientists it's a classroom in the sky.
enjoy traveling around the world,
JL: What is your educational and professional background? KW: I received my bachelor's degree in meteorology from Penn State University, and then went to work as a meteorologist. JL: What advice would you give someone who wanted to enter this field? KW: Math and science. Math and science. Get a degree in meteorology and be willing to travel.
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• Why did Karla Williams want to change her job?
• What does a hurricane hunter do?
• What is the advantage of this job?
• What is the disadvantage of such job?
• Does Karla Williams work alone?
• What subjects should a hurricane hunter study?
• Would you like to work in this field?
• What is the most interesting to your mind in this work?
3. Fill in the gaps: miss, typhoons, touched , hurricane, air
• There are many names of hurricanes: cyclones, tornadoes or ….
• It was the …..party of the year!
• What is the "eye" of the hurricane? – it is a column of ….., where the weather is unexpected calm
• This hurricane may be …. our region! Let’s hope!
• When the giant spinning wheel of a hurricane …. the city, nothing was seen there.
