
Explore thunderstorm basics, including single cell, multi cell, and supercell systems, their three stages—towering cumulus, mature, dissipating—and hazards like hail, tornadoes, winds, updrafts, and flash floods.
Explore the mechanics of thunderstorms, from moisture, rising and unstable air to lifting mechanisms, updrafts, cloud formation, electrification, and the progression to hail, lightning, flooding, and tornadoes.
Analyze live severe thunderstorm warnings on radar with radarscope, distinguishing watches from warnings and noting hazards like 60 mph wind gusts and quarter-sized hail while tracking storm motion.
Explore how warm, moist air, instability, and a trigger drive thunderstorms, from single cells to supercells, and how lightning, detection technologies, and suppression attempts shape research and safety.
Recap how warm, moist air rises in updrafts to form cumulonimbus clouds and three thunderstorm types—single-cell, multi-cell, and supercell—some spawning tornadoes in about 20% of cases.
This course is designed to give you a broad and macro perspective of our atmosphere and how active thunderstorms form and exist. If there were no clouds, rain, sun, snow, or air to breathe, life could not exist. This course is designed to show you the dynamic relationship between weather, climate, and the atmosphere that all work together top provide balance to our planet's ecosystem. I also touch on some thunderstorm safety measures used by our weather forecasters to keep you safe during a storm.
I cover the basic makeup of thunderstorms from single cells, multi cell, and the infamous super cell to the basic cloud formations that are present in the sky. The levels of the thunderstorm composition are discussed in detail providing you with a framework to do field labs on seeing the lighting or hearing the thunder for yourself wherever you may live. Watching the Weather Channel or Accuweather is nice but understanding what goes into making the weather graphs makes this course invaluable for you.
The atmosphere was designed to sustain life at all levels but it must be taken care of and it must be respected. This course will give you the weather tools you need to explore our atmosphere in a safe and fun way.