http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com science writer and book author Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:51:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-rising-and-sinking-air http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-rising-and-sinking-air#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:03:19 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1491 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-rising-and-sinking-air/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/science-lessons-from-ida http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/science-lessons-from-ida#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:34:55 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1296 Ida,  a late-season hurricane that caused serious flooding along the U.S. Northeast Coast after it was no longer a hurricane or even a tropical storm offers teachers opportunities to hitch science lessons to a big news story. Even students who say they don’t follow the news surely must have  heard of the storm if they [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/science-lessons-from-ida/feed 6 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-storm-winds http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-storm-winds#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:12:04 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1264 Q: Why doesn’t an extratropical cyclone continue to rotate around a 360-degree axis, like a hurricane?  I’ve always wondered why a cold front begins to the northwest of the low center and then dies out on the northeast side. Why doesn’t it continue to just rotate?  How does the Coriolis effect play into all of [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-storm-winds/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-extratropical-cyclone-winds http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-extratropical-cyclone-winds#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:31:45 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1199 Q: My question is about your article in the November  AOPA Flight Training magazine on tropical cyclones.  I’m trying to reconcile two potentially different ideas: first, that a cyclone has swirling air (which I assume to mean the the air masses are rotating around the Low), and second, that the warm front and cold front [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-extratropical-cyclone-winds/feed 1