Introductory video from the Weather Observation Course offered by Smalltown Weather. This lecture provides a basic understanding of basic meteorology and how the National Weather Service works.
I’m a flight instructor and weather has always been my weakest and least confident field of study regarding aviation. This lecture pulled a lot of things together for me in a way I didn’t think of before.
I'm a Blackhawk pilot for the Army and this was a phenomenonal wx review! I appreciate the hell out of you Airforce meteos, couldn't do it without your direction!
I am a hang glider pilot and now studying to take my PPL exams, this was a really compelling presentation and some concepts are much more clear now, thank you for sharing!
I lived in Alaska. I remember one day in Kanakanak when the temperature went from -40 to +40 in ~2 hours. I also worked for an oil company in Prudhoe Bay. Talk about weather extremes, none more so than in the Arctic, as well as the dancing auroras visible during the winter months. Needless to say, aviation weather in Alaska is first and foremost, as everyone is affected by the weather. Great presentation, thank you.
Oh oh, I have a mnemonic for #5 on the quiz! High pressure is clockwise, so the numbers on the clock are going higher. Vs low pressure is counter-clockwise, so the numbers are getting lower.
I am just an ordinary layman that likes the weather... I'm 47 yo male but I've liked the weather all my life. I've been a hurricane chaser from home since 2004 I always liked thunderstorms. they're actually calming to me as long as they're not too severe ha ha. Although I used to like the adrenaline of severe weather because you're constantly watching for tornadoes although we didn't really get that many where I'm from in Ohio but we have had a couple. One of which was the 1999 Blue Ash Ohio tornado and I wasn't living at my mom's anymore but it damaged homes about a block away from her and it happened in the overnight hours so that was even more scary. It's also not far away from Xenia OH where the 1974 F5 tornado hit
Totally stumbled on this by accident...glad I did !!! Looking forward to layering more knowledge on top of this. Being prepared and armed with understanding is far better than cleaning up the aftermath. Thanks !!! (Streeter ND)
I'm literally just a nerd trying to learn weather and teach it in my homeschool 😅 But my favorite new thing that I learned about was FIRE TORNADOS which also appealed to my knowledge of ancient history. History is awesome. Medieval fantasy, too. 😅
Cont.... At first I didn't think I would be interested but the way it was presented in a simple way with pictures and examples helped me to have a better appreciation for the subject. Thanks again...an OTR driver, Arica
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video and share your wisdom and knowledge of atmospheric sciences with the world. You've gained a new subscriber 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I’m just a kid who wants to learn everything about weather and actually be successful in my life. My dream is to see every phenomenon and see a tornado up close. I can memorize weather scales like rain, hail, tornadoes, and hurricanes. I know facts and info of some specific tornadoes and I’m planning on researching the December winter tornado in Minnesota due to it happening in the winter! Though most months are winter there..
When I was stationed in Texas is when I had the most extreme experiences with cold fronts. We had one day that was around 90 for most of the day, and then in the later afternoon, we suddenly had high winds, and the temperature dropped almost 20 F, just in the time it took to walk from one end of the parking pads to the other.
I'm here for the weather but I noted a connection to human psychology. In how pressure is applied to the psyche. It's essentially the same exact concept in how we react to a given amount of pressure. Based around how secure your support system is. So you're looking at Family, Faith, Friends, Fitness and Finance and how much support you have from those areas. What's the density of that support network? How close is it? How consistent is that support available? And what's the temperature of the event you're experiencing? Say you have a really close knit family and an issue comes up with an aunt or an uncle, you're much more likely to have a healthy resolution of that conflict in comparison to if that density wasn't there. Am I making sense?
My training squadron was right next door to the Weather Squadron at Chanute AFB. I sure wish I had chosen that career path than the Missile Systems training I was assigned to.
Are there any follow up lectures to this one? I feel like I got a good basic understanding now of how/why weather is created in the first place. But I'd like to learn more about how actual weather systems (clouds, storms, etc.) actually work and with which fronts they are associated.
Hi, I'm very excited u said u were in air force as meteorologist...i have applied for this job too I'm from Pakistan 🇵🇰....can u please guide me more about so i can start learning from grass root level...any book for beginner like me or any website etc...i have MSc in physics
The wind arrows at the bottom of the low pressure area are incorrect. The incoming air turns to the right, not to the left, setting up a counterclockwise flow.
at 10:18 the picture of low pressure , the left one, the air direction of the upper part is wrong, the direction of air flowing out must be clockwise, this is totally important. the upper part and lower parts have the same angular momentum, total augular mometum is not conserved. besides, by flowing out, the coriolis makes it curve to the right, and not left.
When you are discussing the equation of ideal gas law, you say that when temperature goes up, pressure goes up and when temperature goes down, pressure goes down. Can you confirm if this is correct please? I thought pressure decreased when temperature increased.
With the ever changing of the earths tilt, imagine the earths average temperature if the equator followed the length of either Africa, the americas or even Asia…. Luckily today we have the pacific and Atlantic oceans breaking up the heat mass.
@@pavel9652 absorb and create currents that distributes the heat (melting the sea ice), it doesn’t store the heat like land mass. Personally I think over fishing in the tropical regions interfering with the oceans delicate ecosystem is promoting more algae blooms which is measurable increasing water temperatures, this is causing more damage than anything we’re doing on land. But countries are prepared to go to war over the fisheries industry so you won’t see any government funded research on that. Fishing is the only industry that has trended upwards at the same rate as water temperatures.
I burst out laughing at "Mountains is not weather!" Edit: I'M CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR DOCTOR Edit: I appreciate that this started incorporating stand-up around halfway through. I keep thinking "ah yes boring weather math" and then I almost choke when you say something unexpected
Had to quit learning to fly because of this subject. No matter how many times I tried to learn it just won't stick. I just don't have the right kind of brain. Sad but true.
Without clarifying the confusing H vs L pressure, this lecture means nothing: the cold air=HP above sea pushing toward the warm air=LP on land vs warm air=LP rising but cold air=HP sinking 👎
@@EJS1970 I don't care and was only interested in correcting your mistake, easy. Most of folk like you are clueless about the subject anyway. Like I don't care what school dropout thinks about brain surgery or rocket science. Weather and climate are like petrol and diesel.
I'm trying to get all the way through, but he keeps repeating the same aphorisms over and over and over: "weather is just the atmosphere trying to equalize itself." If he said that once he said it TWENTY times. Too much unnecessary detail. WE DON'T NEED TO KNOW THAT METEOROLOGISTS ARE LIKE DOCTORS, ARE LIKE DENTISTS, ARE LIKE THIS, ARE LIKE THAT. Jesus, this is annoying. I thought I would learn something other than that Liberty University grads talk like preachers.
The National Weather Service sucks. Over-reliant on computer generated output, and NONE of them have any decent level of weather skill. Trust me...I was an operational weather forecaster for several decades.
