Earth Day 2015

Hi All,

Did you know that Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 is Earth Day?  Click on this link for a very comprehensive summary of what Earth Day is, how it started, and what it means to planet Earth.  For a bit of context, click on this History Channel link that talks about the history of Earth Day.

Readers would do well to take a look at the formal Earth Day website - which can be viewed here.
The site is chock full of facts, articles, links and more about Earth Day and the Earth day network. 

Even the US government has information about Earth Day - click on this link for the whole story.  There are links and activities, volunteer events for Earth Day, and a brief history of Earth Day.

Envirolink has an Earth Day 2015 calendar which can be found by clicking on this link.  Users can add their own events to the calendar, and view all Earth Day events here as well.

Finally, click on this link which explains 'why Earth Day is important' and this link as well.

Happy Earth Day 2015!

Regards,
Stu

All Things Rain

Hi All,

It is a rain, dreary Monday morning - and I need a topic for a blog post.  What could be better than a blog post about 'All Things Rain' on a rainy, dreary, Monday morning?  Promise, I'll give you just a sprinkling of links and I also promise not to make the entry cloud - as a matter of fact, it'll be clear sailing from this point on.


A good place to learn about rain is by clicking on this link from Wikipedia. Titled 'Rain', the entry (if printed) would be 29 pages. The entry is organized into 12 different parts (links below). 

1. Formation
2. Causes
3. Characteristics
4. Measurement
5. Forecasting
6. Impact
7. Global Climatology
8. Outside of Earth
9. See Also
10. Notes
11. Reference
12. External Links

Click here for a link that lets users search local weather archives for a particular day in history.  Users can enter the city, satte or zip code or airport code to find a particular location.  Then users can enter a particular date in order to view information about temperature, moisture,  precipitation and wind Daily weather graphs appear at the bottom of the page for temperature, barometric pressure and wind speed.

Click on this next link from Arizona State University for the World Weather/Climate Extremes Archive.  Users will find a lot of information about extreme weather - including, rain, temperature and much, much more.  

Wikipedia to the rescue!  Click on this link for a list of weather records - in particular rain records - from Wikipedia.

Finally, for information on what happens when too little rain falls, click on these links that discuss drought and the southwest portion of the United States.

U.S. Drought Monitor
Drought in the United States
Drought - April 2014 - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Enjoy the links - and stay dry!

Regards,
Stu

Severe Weather Around the United States

Hi All,

Just wanted to share an interesting weather website called the 'U.S. Severe Weather Map' from the Weatherunderground.  Click here for the link. Users can use the tabs right above the map to choose various regions of the United States to locate severe weather.


Readers might want to visit the website Weather Underground for more weather forecasts, articles, maps, and more.  Click here for the site.

Enjoy the site.
Stu