+your daily weather report+

[Cracker]

You were close with some of your observations, and people like Lucy just gobble it up. You'll have to do better with me.

Wind is generated mostly by how closely two opposing areas of pressure are to each other, i.e., a high pressure center and a low pressure center. Wind was what Lucy was wondering about.

Tell her all about pressure gradients, etc.

BTW, why don't you give us a lesson on the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation. That'll help explain why it's been such a mild winter for most of us here in the U.S.

Only if you pay me. And yes, if you pay certain places, they will teach something about anything you want. They guy I paid is a PhD who works for NOAA headquarters in Peachtree City. I figured he knew what he was talking about.

Now, don't forget to tell people pressure differences are due to unequal heating. Because you sounded smart for a second, but then I read it.


Never use a 50 cent word when a 5 cent word will work just as well. I learned that, too.