I’ll never forget the moment that I learned that I had been selected to be part of a dang tornado research campaign. Elizabeth and I were on vacation, in a cab in Montego Bay, Jamaica. We hadn’t had any contact with the outside world for a couple of days, and so when she turned her …
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Adventure Summer: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
On July 14, 2018, Elizabeth and I tried one of our most challenging hikes – Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
College Snow Day: February 5, 2020
When I think about snow days in my childhood, I think about sitting in front of the TV, waiting for my school district to show up on the crawl at the bottom with the word “CLOSED”. I think of staying hunkered down all day against blowing and drifting snow, and bitter sub-zero wind chills, and …
New Year 2020: The Trip Where I (Kinda) Learned to Ski (Day Two)
Have you ever dreaded something so much that you contemplate pretending to sprain your ankle to get out of it? I won’t say that’s how scared I was of learning how to ski, but I wasn’t far off on the morning of December 30, 2019. Elizabeth and Pam did a great job of trying to …
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New Year 2020: The Trip Where I (Kinda) Learned to Ski (Day One)
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I may not qualify as an old dog, but I wasn’t convinced that I could ever learn to ski. Despite growing up in West Michigan, less than half an hour from a ski area, I had only attempted it once in my life – a …
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May 7, 2019: Tulia, Texas tornadogenesis
For some people, exam week means endless cramming and all-night study sessions. May of 2019 featured an active weather pattern, so for me it included a jaunt to the Caprock region to chase a Panhandle moderate risk. On Tuesday, May 7, the SPC outlined an area with a 15% tornado risk. I had met with …
Adventure Summer Part 2: National Parks Trip, Day 1
One of Elizabeth’s goals in life is to visit every national park. It’s funny to think about it, but in the summer of 2018, she still had yet to visit any. Thus, we made plans to visit two parks once her differential equations class was over. On the recommendation of my coworker, Ethan, we planned …
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May 5, 2019: Texas Panhandle Supercells
2019 began in the most frustrating way possible for me. A storm in late March occurred while I was on Spring Break. A mid-April event saw my group puttering around the I-40 corridor with landspouts occurring to our north in Ellis County, OK. Finally, on April 30, a meeting at school kept me from leaving …
Adventure Summer Part 1: Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Summer 2018 was a cool time for Elizabeth and myself. We had both just finished our sophomore year at the University of Oklahoma. I was working a part-time job in Norman over the summer, while she had to take differential equations as part of our major track. The differential equations class took place in just …
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Hello world!
Welcome! My name is Nolan Meister, and I’ve gotten to do some pretty cool things in my life. This blog will help document some of those adventures!
