Where does the weather come from?
2016-07-21 17:40:37.000 – Christopher Hohman, Summer Intern
When we’re in grade school we all learn about the beautifully simple water cycle as the explanation to every storm forming over us. This model for weather isn’t incorrect by any means, but you’d be surprised how much more there is to the whole process. On a daily basis the atmosphere moves like a fluid on not just small local scale, but continental and even global. This is one of the most core ideals of meteorology, and after staring at pressure charts for long enough and even observing in the field, one can start to get a good grasp on this concept. So while there are many different processes, I’ve decided to focus on one extremely common way we experience simple forms of weather like rain and thunderstorms: low pressure systems.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
Christopher Hohman, Summer Intern
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