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Answers: Inside Weather Fronts
Q: In the November issue of AOPA Flight Training, you discuss extratropical cyclones, including the movement of cold air under warm air and vice versa. If I understand this correctly, the fronts themselves do not discriminate between the cold or warm air ahead of them. How do you explain movement under (cold into warm) or movement over (warm into cold)? Kevin,... »
Teaching the Science of Weather
Many non-meteorologists, including otherwise well-informed adults, don't realize that weather forecasting is a science. Meteorologists who visit schools with the message, "If you want to become a weather professional, study all of the math and science you can," are sometimes asked, "why do I need to study science to be a broadcast meteorologist?" Their parents, like other adults, could well have the... »
Weather Book at Press Club Book Fair
Jack Williams' The AMS Weather Book will be among books by 75 nationally-known authors that will be sold and signed at the National Press Club's annual Book Fair and Authors' Night on Tuesday,Nov. 17, 2009 at the historic club in downtown Washington, D.C. Last-minute news Bob Ryan, Chief meteorologist for WRC-TV, Channel 4, in Washington, D.C., will join Jack at his Book... »
The Other Important 40th Anniversary
The Page One Cover Story in the Friday, August 14 issue of USA TODAY, "Woodstock: More of a curiosity than a benchmark in 2009?" (online) is just one among the many such stories newspapers, Web sites, and television and radio networks (including NPR) are running to mark ... »
