#13 Reflection
It may have only been a short 3 months, but I already feel a sense of nostalgia looking back over the weeks. For me, this was far more than a journey of “getting to know my topic well”. I started out thinking I would be able to explore different weather events every week, the “exciting stuff” like tornadoes and hurricanes. By the third week, I realised this would not work. I was stressed and worried that I would have no strong thread, no idea what was actually going on in the weather world. A month in is where it all changed for me. I didn’t know that from sending one email to Dr.Otto that I would spend the next 10 weeks inspired and hopeful. I found an outstanding yet humbling sense of community in the extreme weather world. I had no idea that my entire source of inspiration for the coming posts wouldn’t actually be scrolling through google-scholar. Instead I was following up scholar twitter retweets, following leads in newspaper articles, and for me, the most amazing part, was ...