Weather

Weather is an evergreen small talk topic, and after this episode of Tangents you will be fully equipped to blow the socks off every grocery store clerk, dental technician, and next door neighbor you meet with your in-depth knowledge of wind, precipitation, and more! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Brain Storm] Falling animals https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/can-it-rain-frogs-fish-and-other-objects https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/strange-rain-why-fish-frogs-and-golf-balls-fall-skies-180956527/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish https://www.thelocal.no/20150416/earthworms-rain-from-sky-over-southern-norway Automated Weather Observing Systems https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Automated_Weather_Observing_System_(AWOS) https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_150_5220-16E.pdf Cloud seeding https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/25/270084/weather-engineering-in-china/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899086.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20111123025420/http://www.ceawmt.in/indian_history.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000484 https://www.ncm.ae/en/details.html?id=825&lid=575 https://www.popsci.com/smog-cloud-seeding-thailand/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161105045733/http://thainews.prd.go.th/website_en/news/news_detail/WNEVN5903040010016 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ncfa-wcs012606.php https://journalofweathermodification.org/index.php/JWM/article/view/474 https://www.weathermod-bg.eu/index_en.php https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-fires-siberia/russia-seeds-clouds-in-siberia-to-douse-raging-wildfires-idUSKBN24B1JT [Fact Off] Tempest Prognosticator Pic here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/tempest-prognosticator-predicting.html https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/cloud-watching-understanding-weather/ https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/science/3898-can-you-predict-the-weather-with-leeches https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-used-leaches-to-predict-the-weather https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leeches-predict-weather-tempest-prognosticator AMDAR https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088613 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4 https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/aircraft-based-observations/amdar/about-amdar https://amdar.noaa.gov/docs/bams/ [Ask the Science Couch] Acid rain https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what-acid-rain http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem1/L26/3.html https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/acid-rain-and-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .