Clear Skies? SO Overrated! posted on June 8, 2007 09:01 PM by rethwyll.
You MAY want to have a seat before you read this, lest the shock of the revelation buckle your knees and pitch you headfirst into the coffee table: I'm kind of a nerd. I KNOW. Do you need a cold pack for that bruise? Anyway, I've always been interested in a wide range of subjects, one of which happens to be meteorology, ie. the study of atmospheric patterns, weather processes, etc. (More evidence of nerddom? Use of "ie.")
I am fascinated by day-to-day shifts in weather. My friend in Austin (a fellow weather nerd) and I trade weather reports every morning. Here in the Midwest, we are gearing up for the summer storm season that brings us humdingers (the the technical term) of tornadoes and thunderstorms. It's a great time of year, especially for cloud observations. I have a 90-minute commute every day, and I like to spend my time checking out the clouds (or lack thereof) blowing over the Wisconsin countryside. (In between dodging hat-wearing Farmer Bobs who are driving 30 miles an hour...) And now I have a field guide that will help me tell my cumulonimbuses from my cirruses: The Cloudspotter's Guide, presented by the Cloud Appreciation Society(!!1!) Teh interweb really shouldn't keep enabling my eccentricities like this...
Buy it! The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds, $19.95, at powells.com.
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