Bryan,
Thank you so much for enlightening us about weather symbols. After reading
David L's post, I looked at weather the figures and was wondering what they
mean and was going to look up on the web. Now it is clear.
Meena
From:
Andrew and others,
Reading the wind barbs/"thingies" is a simple process. Here is a website that
makes it easy to understand the surface observations like David (either one)
posted.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/%28Gh%29/guides/maps/sfcobs/home.rxml
or
http://tinyurl.com/yk25236
(same site
Oh! You beat me to it!
You can get the radiosonde data here:
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/
just click on the station nearest you.
Note that they are taken at 1200 and UTC (8:00am and 8:00pm EST), so if
things are changing rapidly between those times, you might have some
So for the Northeast or at least Mid-Atlantic, I guess this is it
(finally)...tonights the night? I plan on recording the next 3
nights.
One question - is there a user friendly website showing wind speeds at
the altitudes at which birds migrate? Either that or is there an
explanation for the
