Images/Videos

This is a map from Exercise 1 showing the jet stream over the United States on February 9, 2012. You can a trough in the jet stream that extends very far to the south into Mexico.

This is a surface map from February 7, 2012.  It shows a large cold front moving across most of the country to the southeast.  Two high pressure systems can be seen to the north of Wisconsin.

This is another map from Exercise 1 that shows the current surface data for the Midwest.  The data for Eau Claire shows that there are overcast skies and winds about 5 mph from the northeast.  There appears to be some light snow in the northern part of Colorado and in western South Dakota.  Much of the northern and western portions of the map have overcast skies and winds from the north.  States in the southern and eastern parts of the map are showing clear skies and winds from the SSW.  There also appears to be an area of fog in Iowa, northern Missouri, and western Illinois.  The image shows that roughly the northern half of the map is experiencing temperatures in the 20s, while the states in the southern part are having temperatures in the low 30s.
 This is a drawing that shows the movement of air in a high pressure system.  The air is moving up and in a clockwise motion.


This drawing shows the movement of air in a low pressure system.  It moves down and in a counter-clockwise motion.

This is a surface data map from February 28.  The low pressure system which brought the large snowstorm can be seen in the Great Plains.

This is an image that when I came across found very interesting.  It is of a person throwing hot water into the air in Antarctica and watching it vaporize. http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/antarctica%20environment/weather.htm

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/clouds/#

I found these three images of clouds on the National Geographic website and thought that they were really cool.  The first shows multiple lenticular clouds at different altitudes.  The second is of a Mackeral sky at sunset, and the third shows lightening occurring in Tuscon, Arizona.

This is a microclimate map I created of the UWEC campus.  This map uses graduated symbols to show the various temperatures.  This map includes data points collected near vents that produce warm air.

 This is another microclimate map of campus but it excludes temperatures that were measured near vents on campus that emit warm air.  These data points were outliers in the previous map.

This is another map of campus using Kriging to show the various temperatures temperatures including those points collected near vents.

This map also uses to Kriging to show temperature variations of the data without vents.

This is a map showing wind speed on the campus.  You can see that the highest wind speeds were collected in the southwest portion of the map on upper campus.

We talked about Haboos in class which are giant dust storms.  Here is a video showing a haboo on July 5, 2011 in Scottsdale, AZ.

This is a video of tornadoes in Oklahoma no April 14, 2012.