In Thursday's Collegian, Chris Bolla wrote a column that disrespected meteorologists and portrayed them as not knowing anything. Aside from being disrespectful, there is no place in the Collegian, a paper which uses the weather forecasts of meteorologists and meteorology students on a daily basis, for such a piece. Now, Mr. Bolla says, "Do the really know anything? I doubt it." Well, perhaps Mr. Bolla himself has not taken even a general meteorology class, so then it would be him who knows nothing about the weather. Has he sat through atmospheric thermodynamics and other 400-level meteorology classes to know how hard it is? No.

In addition, Mr. Bolla says, "People totally lose their minds when the storm is coming. Get a grip, stop panicking -- everything will be all right. There will be a tomorrow." I ask the readers to consider the following situation. Suppose someone takes up residence along the North Carolina coast upon graduating. Now say it's late August, and the storm comes his way. It's a category 3 hurricane, with winds in excess of 115 mph. People are ordered to evacuate to the danger potential. These people will be safe whether or not the storm hits. Now say there was no one to predict such a storm, and the storm actually hit. Hundreds of people would be in its path, their houses destroyed and lives possibly lost. For these people there would not be a tomorrow, and the weather forecast was a very valuable one.