"A mesmerising animated map is weather and other data layers, including winds, wave direction and and height, clouds, CO2 concentration and much more."
Here is a nice little video featuring an appealing character telling a topical story produced by Troy Bennett for the Bangor Daily News. One brief, clean interview illustrated with video stills and a bit of action. Multimedia reporting 101.
"Weather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Weather phenomena lie in the hydrosphere and troposphere. Weather refers to current activity, as opposed to the term climate, which refers to the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth."
with storms of the past - it's bigger than Larry, more powerful than
Tracy. Hours after landfall, it was still a category three and had been
forecast to still be a category one even when it reached Mt Isa, more han
" IF you're struggling to grasp the magnitude of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, consider this: it is so large it would almost cover the United States, most of Asia and large parts of Europe. "
Cyclone Yasi is about to strike land in North Queensland as I enter this post on the evening of 2 Feb 2011. This is a good comparison and visualisation that other teachers could use in their classroom to explain to students.