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Hope this is an appropriate place to post this question.
I want to learn more about weather patterns, conditions, forecasting and my general local climate.
Without doing any formal education (school or UNI) is there any way someone can start learning from home?
Just as a side hobby really for myself, being able to pick local weather and snow in my local area using resources available to everyone would be kinda cool i think.
Check out Jim Woodmency's Reading Weather, then go take one of his courses. Woody is the man. Use the NWS and read forecast discussions and learn their meanings of the terms used.
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Weathe.../dp/0762782366
http://www.mountainweather.com/index...alaska_weather
Cheers mate! Really helpful info :)
There are some really good online free courses. Took a few as part of an avalanche course JonathanS teaches.
Do this...Quote:
Originally Posted by HansJob
Reading NWS forecast discussions helps a lot over time. You learn by reading, and then googling terms you don't understand.
neufox, got a specific link you found to the course you took?
Am doing the reading/googling now, its slow but learning always is... Normally!
Where abouts are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaper guy
Australia at the moment
Weather foums/message boards are the same all over the world and good for following 'current affairs', often with very detailed discussions of local/regional phenomena by clever people. Can be hard to follow at first but you figure it out soon enough. Here are two australian ones:
http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/
http://www.theaustralianweatherforum.com/forum/
The book linked to above looks like it focusses mainly on practical applications. IMO this is a good text book if you want to get (way) more technical:
http://www.amazon.com/Atmospheric-Sc.../dp/012732951X
Cheers man ill have a browse of those forums. We are having a crazy winter here now, thanks to the El Nino... No storms, no snow, but temps are well below 0 (Celsius). Meanwhile NZ is getting dumped on daily...
klar is a chick, yo.
enjoy the rabbit hole. use google scholar instead of regular google if wikipedia isn't cutting it (try scholaring 'ENSO australia' or something for example).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ternet_dog.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by LightRanger
Heheh.
you can do some relating preparation by free lessons online.
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_detail.php
Good place to start online too...
BloomSky is another app that lets you check real-time weather data at stations all around the world. One BloomSky weather station’s time-lapse video caught the big snow dump in Tahoe earlier this month. Search for "Tahoe Weather" in the app to see it.
Thanks for the info!