Notice the weather: The more you know, the more you notice.
I have fixed the links on this page. Sorry for the trouble.
Some things are just beautiful; some have to do with general physics and chemistry as they relate to weather. The story of the Coriolis effect, “Corey’s Bow” has its own page now, but it started out with the weather blogs, so it stays here also.
I have a dream school, called Brother Petroc’s Academy. Occasionally, I mention the parameters of that dream, or my philosophy of education, as in these posts:
Beautiful skies — photo gallery
- Crepuscular rays
- Anticrepuscular rays
- Crepuscular rays Thomas offers a photo
- Crepuscular rays from Ana’s art class
- Cumulus
- Cirro stratus
- Clouds on the horizon
- Earth shadow
- Glories
- Humdity on high
- Iridescent clouds
- Lightning displays
- Scattering of short wavelengths — sky color
- Sundogs
Atmospheric physics
(a) What do we know?
- Avogadro’s bees — why water vapor makes light air
- Beaufort Verse
- Coriolis animation
- Fronts, Jet stream, WWII pilot
- Horse Latitudes, see Rossbreiten
- Low Pressure
- Jet stream
- Marguerite Marie
- Milankovitch cycles
- Clouds on the horizon
- One Drop of Rain
- Opposing Winds
- Phase change
- Rossbreiten
- Southern Storm
- Why humid air rises
(b) Orders of magnitude
(c) For the artist
- Bluest skies
- Clouds on the horizon
- Beaufort Verse
- Brother Petroc’s Academy — Rain at sea
- Crepuscular rays
- Earth shadow
- Snowdrifts: Shelves of drifting snow — an image of the formation of a drift
- Sundogs
(4) Tools to use:
What Do the Critters Know?
Tale of Corey’s Bow — the Coriolis effect
- Corey’s New Bow
- Corey’s Bow (Part 2)
- Corey’s Bow (part 3): The Jumblies
- Corey’s Bow #4 GGC-1835
- Corey’s Bow #5: Lunch with Gaspard
- Corey #6: Which Way West?
- Corey’s Bow #7 Pete’s Equation
- Corey’s Bow #8 Windy Wellington
- Corey’s Bow #9 Latitude Gardens
- Corey’s Bow #10: Hurricane
- Corey #11: Ecole Polytechnique
- Corey #12: Gaspard’s Apple
Weather reading
- Book reviews — Day, Sloane, Watts, Williams
- Cloud identification — The Weather Identification Handbook
- The Universe is my classroom
- Book of Storms
- Look at the Sky…
- The Man Who Rode the Thunder
- Song of the Sky Guy Murchie
- Adventures with a Drop review of the book: From Raindrops to Volcanoes by Blanchard
Weather on the web:
- Cloud Appreciation Society The most beautiful clouds photos from all over the world. Incomparable.
- NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Weather Doctor Keith Heidorn
- John Day’s Cloudman site – This was the best site until the cloud appreciation society came along. Still very good. But you get an idea of what world-wide cooperation means here…
- USA Weather map USA Today’s weather maps and links to jet stream and NOAA sites
Assignments 2009
Eric Sloane’s Weather Book the week’s assignments and comments on both Jack Williams’ and the Eric Sloane’s weather books
- the Eric Sloane Assignments!
- Assignments #2 — chapter 2
- Assignments #3 — chapter 3
- Assignments #4 — chapters 4-5
- ES #10 Weather map
- We had other assignments, but they were not posted as faithfully after I had some travel interruptions!
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