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Tristan Gooley

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Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

But if we've seen cumulus clouds, a little bit of blue sky here and there. And again, a lot of this stuff is common sense when we're seeing it in hindsight, but it's very easy to not actually pause and even go, well, which of those two is it? If it showers, you can plan actually to have a quite fun day dodging them if you want to.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

But if we've seen cumulus clouds, a little bit of blue sky here and there. And again, a lot of this stuff is common sense when we're seeing it in hindsight, but it's very easy to not actually pause and even go, well, which of those two is it? If it showers, you can plan actually to have a quite fun day dodging them if you want to.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

But if we've seen cumulus clouds, a little bit of blue sky here and there. And again, a lot of this stuff is common sense when we're seeing it in hindsight, but it's very easy to not actually pause and even go, well, which of those two is it? If it showers, you can plan actually to have a quite fun day dodging them if you want to.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

And if you haven't had snow for a while and you're enjoying it, you might actually want to be out in it. But yeah, they're very different experiences. If blanket rain starts, it's not a good day to be outdoors, to be honest. It's going to be a bit drab.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

And if you haven't had snow for a while and you're enjoying it, you might actually want to be out in it. But yeah, they're very different experiences. If blanket rain starts, it's not a good day to be outdoors, to be honest. It's going to be a bit drab.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

And if you haven't had snow for a while and you're enjoying it, you might actually want to be out in it. But yeah, they're very different experiences. If blanket rain starts, it's not a good day to be outdoors, to be honest. It's going to be a bit drab.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

Wind is air moving from a high-pressure region to a low-pressure region. And we can recreate this by blowing up a balloon, but instead of sealing the neck, if we just release the neck, high-pressure air in the balloon will flow towards the room, which is at lower pressure. And what's happening all around us and on every scale,

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

Wind is air moving from a high-pressure region to a low-pressure region. And we can recreate this by blowing up a balloon, but instead of sealing the neck, if we just release the neck, high-pressure air in the balloon will flow towards the room, which is at lower pressure. And what's happening all around us and on every scale,

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

Wind is air moving from a high-pressure region to a low-pressure region. And we can recreate this by blowing up a balloon, but instead of sealing the neck, if we just release the neck, high-pressure air in the balloon will flow towards the room, which is at lower pressure. And what's happening all around us and on every scale,

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

imaginable from the vast you know thousands of miles down to uh you know 10 feet literally is that the sun is heating some areas more than others and warm air expands and as it expands its pressure reduces so what's happening every single day is that the sun is heating the equator more than the poles for example so that leads to massive flows um over over literally thousands of miles

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

imaginable from the vast you know thousands of miles down to uh you know 10 feet literally is that the sun is heating some areas more than others and warm air expands and as it expands its pressure reduces so what's happening every single day is that the sun is heating the equator more than the poles for example so that leads to massive flows um over over literally thousands of miles

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

imaginable from the vast you know thousands of miles down to uh you know 10 feet literally is that the sun is heating some areas more than others and warm air expands and as it expands its pressure reduces so what's happening every single day is that the sun is heating the equator more than the poles for example so that leads to massive flows um over over literally thousands of miles

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

But it's also going to heat the dark tarmac in a city more than the green outside the city. And that's why we see those clouds above a town. In fact, I got a fun message from a friend who lives in the town nearest us. I live out in the country. And he said, there's a couple of birds of prey. I think they're buzzards and they're orbiting, they're circling.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

But it's also going to heat the dark tarmac in a city more than the green outside the city. And that's why we see those clouds above a town. In fact, I got a fun message from a friend who lives in the town nearest us. I live out in the country. And he said, there's a couple of birds of prey. I think they're buzzards and they're orbiting, they're circling.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

But it's also going to heat the dark tarmac in a city more than the green outside the city. And that's why we see those clouds above a town. In fact, I got a fun message from a friend who lives in the town nearest us. I live out in the country. And he said, there's a couple of birds of prey. I think they're buzzards and they're orbiting, they're circling.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

And it was about 11 o'clock in the morning, which is very early for birds to be doing that. And I said, they're probably looking for a car parking space. And he said, what are you talking about? I said, well, if you draw a line vertically down from where they're circling, is that the large car park in the north of town? And he goes, yeah, how on earth did you know that?

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

And it was about 11 o'clock in the morning, which is very early for birds to be doing that. And I said, they're probably looking for a car parking space. And he said, what are you talking about? I said, well, if you draw a line vertically down from where they're circling, is that the large car park in the north of town? And he goes, yeah, how on earth did you know that?

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

And it was about 11 o'clock in the morning, which is very early for birds to be doing that. And I said, they're probably looking for a car parking space. And he said, what are you talking about? I said, well, if you draw a line vertically down from where they're circling, is that the large car park in the north of town? And he goes, yeah, how on earth did you know that?

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

I said, well, that's the only big dark place that will be warm enough to create the thermal that they'll look for. So it's, as I say, all wind is high pressure to low pressure. But what I'm trying to do is encourage people to not just think this is about these huge, massive, massive kind of charts we see on TV or internet forecasts.

Something You Should Know
Where To Find Answers to Your Toughest Problems & How Weather Works

I said, well, that's the only big dark place that will be warm enough to create the thermal that they'll look for. So it's, as I say, all wind is high pressure to low pressure. But what I'm trying to do is encourage people to not just think this is about these huge, massive, massive kind of charts we see on TV or internet forecasts.