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
