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he sky was gray, but that meant it was Rebecca Mazur’s idea of a good day: cloudy with a chance of saving lives. Days like that one are all part of her job as a meteorologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The agency hires climatologists and weather experts such as Rebecca who study and make predictions about weather, climate, and the atmosphere. On that particular day, Mazur was driving in a part of southeast Wyoming where she knew severe storms could occur. She parked her car in a spot where she thought she had the best chance of seeing a big thun- derstorm. Sure enough, a little northwest of her spot, over some nearby mountains, a storm began to develop.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND internships  jobs often done for free by people in the early stages of study for a career meteorologist  a scientist who forecasts weather and weather patterns

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