Overtime is required when weather conditions deteriorate. Meteorologists usually work a forty-hour week. At airport Weather Service stations, he or she meets private, business, and airline pilots. He or she may work alone at a small station or with other meteorologists and meteorological technicians at a large station. At times, she or he may be required to work outdoors for short periods, checking weather instruments and making observations. The meteorologist is able to operate a teletypewriter. He or she reads data from weather instruments such as anemometers, thermometers, barometers, theodolites, ceilometers, radiosondes, weather balloons, etc. The meteorologist works indoors, sitting or standing at map tables while working on weather maps and charts. Often the meteorologist advises pilots personally when assisting the pilot in drawing up a flight plan. She or he sends forecasts via teletype or telephone to Flight Service Stations, airline dispatch offices, airports, and to other consumers of weather information. At larger stations, the meteorologist may specialize in one or more of these duties, relying to some extent upon computerized data in order to produce a forecast. At a small weather station he or she may carry on numerous functions such as: making outside weather observations, reading and recording data from weather instruments, checking weather data coming in via a machine, drawing weather maps, plotting the weather, providing forecasts, and advising pilots and other interested parties. The meteorologist's main tasks involve the interpretation of meteorological data provided by weather observations and instruments. Thus, the meteorologist deserves mention in any discussion of vocations in aviation, even though these functions are not entirely for the benefit of the aviation community. Flight and weather are so interrelated that many people in aviation look upon the meteorologist as a member of the aviation team. National Weather Service meteorologists play a key role in providing aviation weather information. She or he reports weather conditions expected at airports, current conditions, and en route forecasts. He or she is the forecaster who provides the day-to-day, hour-to-hour observations, analyses, forecasts, warnings, and advice to pilots, airport operators and airlines. In general, the meteorologist who works most closely with aviation is an operational, or synoptic, meteorologist (as contrasted to the meteorologist working in theoretical or applied meteorological research). Meteorologist and Meteorological Technician Position Description
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