Tukuk-OS🌦️ Weather
Five micro-lessons · about 37 minutes in total
Forecasts, rain, storms and the wild Pacific engine that shifts weather worldwide. Five lessons, about 37 minutes in total — read one at a time; each stands alone.
The five lessons
1. Reading a Forecast
Humidity, pressure and fronts — the small print your weather app hides.
2. How Rain Forms
Cloud drops are too small to fall — rain needs a growth trick.
3. Thunderstorms and Lightning
How a cloud charges, why thunder claps, and the real safety rules.
4. Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones
One storm, three names — and how warm water builds the deadliest weather machines.
5. El Niño and La Niña
The Pacific’s slow heartbeat that moves rain, drought and prices worldwide.
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Further reading
Three real books on this track, from the Open Library catalogue — follow the links for libraries, previews and borrow options.
The research
The most-cited Crossref-indexed papers matching the topic — a window into how professionals actually study it.
- Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas — Hijmans (2005), cited 16,956 times
- WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas — Fick (2017), cited 15,968 times
- Summary for Policymakers — Unknown (2014), cited 10,615 times