Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venice, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation

with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode,

I'm joined by the Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University,

Kristen Rasmussen, where I ask her, how can we get to Cloud 9?

Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Venice. I'm so excited to welcome this week's guest.

She is an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University,

Professor Kristen Rasmussen. How are you, Kristen?

Hi, Jonathan, I'm doing great.

Wait, I should say Professor Rasmussen, because you have worked hard for this title. What do you

prefer? Kristen is great. Yeah. Okay. So, okay, I guess I do have like a lot more like

heart-hitting like cloud and journalistic questions, later not literally heart-hitting, I say it

like jokingly, but I have to start with a literal joke first question because this is why I'm obsessed

with clouds. After you saw Twister, have you ever been the same sentence?

I think that I am actually an Atmospheric Scientist because of Twister. I was in the sixth grade when

I saw it, and that's a very impressionable time in in someone's growth, and I saw Twister,

and I actually saw a tornado in sixth grade. I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, it was very rare,

and I looked out the window and I saw a tornado when I was hooked. So, for me, Twister was a life-changing

movie. It changed my perspective of, you know, strong, positive, you know, women role models in the

field, doing field work, throwing instruments in crazy weather conditions, and that's kind of,

I think it launched my interest in the career, I'm in.

Can I just say I have never started with like the million dollar question? It was an

accident, but I also have been permanently changed from this movie. I was, I remember, I think I

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