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So I have started looking at potential graduate schools in the last week or so. My basic criteria for finding the good ones were:

a) Does it have a meteorology/atmospheric sciences program that lists hydrology or hydrometeorology as one of its research interests?
b) Is it a school I've heard of within the realm of meteorology and/or the research community?
c) Is it close to a National Weather Service field office? (this has rammifications as far as whether Jeremy and I will have a chance in hell at living together in the next three years...not to mention the remote possibility that I could work there while going to school)
d) Is it somewhere that I would consider a nice region to live in, and would the cost of living be affordable? (the central part of the country is obviously the best choice since all of our family is here and it's relatively cheap living. I suppose second choice would be somewhere in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic region.)

So I went to gradschools.com and perused its list to see which ones I found to be most attractive, and then I did a google map distance between the schools and their respective NWS offices. Here's what I have so far (in no particular order):

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Now that I've narrowed it down to good schools that I would be comfortable attending, a lot is now riding on where Jeremy's career takes him. If he wants us to live together soon, he'll have to consider this stuff when applying for jobs, and I think that it is something that he definitely is considering. We've talked about it often.

I know this was extensively lengthy, but I was wondering if any of you had any insight that would be helpful. Your opinions mean a lot to me.