Meteorology

As I write in my book, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life , your field journal or nature journal is so much more than “just pretty pictures.” You record a great deal of information about the world around you—and that information I call “nature data.” This includes observations about what is blooming

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Your first thought about a meteorologist is probably - they predict the weather! While that is part of the job of some meteorologists, there’s more to meteorology than you’d expect. As defined by the American Meteorological Society, “A meteorologist is an individual with specialized education who uses scientific principles to explain, observe...or forecast the earth's atmospheric phenomena and/or how the atmosphere affects the earth and life on the planet.” Learn more at the link…

Everything Weather on Instagram: “A Tornado Warned Supercell North Of Hitchcock, South Dakota On July 2nd, 2018. • What would you do if you saw this? • 📸 by…”

Hook Echo Tornado

A beginner's guide to reading surface weather maps, Z time, weather fronts, isobars, station plots, and a variety of weather map symbols.

Radar images of El Reno on 05/31/13. Reflectivity (top), Velocity (center), & Correlation Coefficient (bottom). This tornado was a beast.

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What is Climatology? Climatology is the study of the behavior of the atmosphere and changes in temperature, pressure, and other atmospheric factors over a period of time. Climatology is a branch of atmospheric science, but

How to read these different cloud formations to help you predict the weather when you can't access a weather forecast. #typesof #clouds #andweather

A high school meteorology course. Take for credit from Florida Virtual School (https://www.flvs.net).

Cloud levels: find out how high they begin to form | Illustration: Met Office

If a tornado was heading your way, you'd probably head for the hills. But for some people, it's just the beginning of a chase.

Where do tornadoes form, and how do they cause damage? View this infographic to learn more.