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Any questions (except private) answered from the 1st grade level on up pertaining to any aspect of Weather. I am a 20 year member of the American Meteorological society and a long time forecaster of eastern United States snow storms and Hurricanes.

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Recent Answers from Donald Rosenfeld

2009-11-04 Weather, Earth Space Science:

Hi Leslie Could be the first city is at a higher elevation or near the ocean; the answer probably would be the higher elevation because the temperature falls as you rise in elevation where the ocean

2009-10-30 Component of Global Winds resulting from Sun Position:

Hi Terry What a wonderful question!! I believe you're right; it would work like a land breeze that goes from the cold land at night to a warmer body of water- but, in this case, sunrise air would

2009-10-28 Weather movement:

Hi Jamie In the northern hemisphere storms generally move from west to east following the jet stream. However there are exceptions such as hurricanes which move from east to west in the Atlantic and

2009-10-27 visual weather indicators:

Hi John On the ocean you can use wave height as a wind speed indicator but, on land, the best way is use a hand anemometer: http://www.theweatherstore.com/wihaan.html For rainfall it's described

2009-10-27 visual weather indicators:

Hi John Well, a person who is not connected to the internet could use: http://web2.iadfw.net/danb1/clouds.htm to forecast the weather from the clouds. There are portable weather instruments

 

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