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The most famous weather profession - meteorologist

A weather profession that everyone knows is that of the meteorologist. In order to be able to practice this profession, you have to study. That studies Meteorology closes first with the Bachelor ab, a master’s degree is usually required for management positions.

• If you want to study meteorology, you have to be good at mathematics and physics. This is the only way you will be able to successfully pass the course, which is considered to be very tough. You shouldn't be afraid of the English language either, because many reports are written in English.
• The best-known application of a meteorologist is that in the weather forecast, where he is used by other employees or automats determined data, for example temperatures or precipitation amounts, evaluates and weather forecasts created. As a meteorologist, you can also deal with developing new models for calculating different weather conditions or preparing expert reports. But it is also possible to work in specialist areas. These include, for example, agricultural meteorology. Here you can observe the relationship between climate and plant growth. Other specialist areas include medical meteorology, traffic meteorology, energy meteorology or technical meteorology.
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• You can also work in meteorology with a few other courses, such as geophysics, environmental science and oceanography. That also means that you have the courses combine, for example, after a bachelor's degree in geophysics, you can add a master's degree in meteorology or vice versa.
• There are positions for meteorologists at the German Weather Service, in research, but also, for example, with the German Armed Forces or with environmental authorities. In the private sector, weather experts are sometimes also needed, for example by airlines. You can also find employment with private weather companies or set up one yourself.


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• That salary depends on where you work and what tasks and responsibilities you are entrusted with. For federal officials in the weather service, for example, the official salary applies. Civil servants who have completed a university degree are civil servants in the higher service who have salary group A 13 and a starting basic salary of currently approx. Start at € 3,800.

Officials in the weather service

If you are not completing a university degree, but still want to take up a weather profession, there is an alternative: If you are a civil servant in the middle or high-level weather service.

• If you want to become an official in the upscale weather service, you need the Abitur or the technical college entrance qualification. You will complete your training in the form of a three-year course at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration. At the moment it is still a diploma course. In addition to areas such as general and theoretical meteorology and mathematics, the course also includes the basics of administrative action. It also includes practical sections that you complete with the German Weather Service or the geographic information service of the German Armed Forces. You will later also be employed there as a civil servant.
• Your tasks may include, for example, evaluating observation and measurement data, creating official weather warnings or advising companies and authorities. These can be transport companies, agricultural and forestry operations or health care facilities. You can also be employed in maritime and aviation security. As a senior civil servant, i.e. the second-highest civil servant career, you start with salary group A 9 and a starting basic salary of currently approx. 2,400 euros.
• Even without a university entrance qualification or high school diploma, you have the opportunity to work in the weather service, in this case in the middle service. Your training then lasts twenty months and takes place in the training facilities of the German Weather Service or the Geoinformation Service of the Bundeswehr as well as in their offices. The prerequisite is an intermediate level of education or a secondary school diploma with completed vocational training. In this case too, it is important that you are interested in physics and mathematics.
• Your tasks include monitoring the weather and collecting various measurement data, such as the amount of precipitation or humidity. They also assist with the creation of predictions or warnings, for example by preparing the data. As a civil servant in the middle service, you start with salary group A 6 and a starting basic salary of currently approx. 2,000 euros.

As you can see: As a weather fan you have various career options. (As of March 2014)