Guanajuato, Gto., June 13, 2016.- With a 34-year experience, Jacinto Jaramillo has become in a state referent as a source of information in the weather forecast. "The weatherman of the University" has decided to retire, nevertheless, he leaves satisfied with the work done from the House of Studies in benefit of society.

Jacinto Jaramillo has been the responsible of the Meteorological Observatory since December 1981 –although the official date of his entry was January 15th 1982—. So, he has accomplished to be renowned as a meteorologist for all the experience together throughout more than three decades.

For family circumstances, Jacinto Jaramillo had to interrupt his studies at an early age, although thanks to the perseverance managed to conclude hi studies in a system for adults, and began his training to be in the Meteorological Observatory of the University of Guanajuato.

During the service he provided in the observatory, he had the opportunity to be trained by military and navy members, "we learned the hard way, but with people prepared in the subject, with master degrees and ph.ds" told Jaramillo, who specialized in continental norths and hurricanes.

With the media has maintained a strong contact, and he comments that addressing was natural for him; he then created a series of links and with the local radio generated university presence in a private media.

"As an observer is an excellent work, attending groups is one of my greater pleasures, because they are an uneasy youth," affirmed Jaramillo.

The work in the Observatory

Jacinto Jaramillo coordinates the work among the National Meteorological Service, the National Commission of Water and the University of Guanajuato (UG). In the Atmospheric Observatory, they have several shifts to cover 24 hours "every hour we take data, process and determine with some values, such as atmospheric pressure, humidity, measuring rain, cloud classification, among other variables, and every three hours there is a compilation that is sent to the National Meteorological Service," he explains.

In half an hour the national server has all the information of the country and it is sent to Washington, to one of the world centers of meteorology that currently are four, the other three are in Moscow, Tokyo and Australia.

The importance of the Meteorological Observatory is not only to attend the media and these inform the society of possible climatic changes and even catastrophes related with weather. They also make analysis the help to have a good agriculture, knowing the temperature and rainfall; in this aspect they support the chemists in their experiments, since they have to be done with the same pressure and humidity, and this data is provided by the Observatory.

For all this, and even when Jaramillo has decided to conclude a stage in UG to dedicate more time to his family, he sustains: "I'm very satisfied of what we have accomplished and to be recognized in the State as an information source."