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By Gary Vaughn Most of us get our weather information from the evening TV weather news. Another good portion of the population actually watches and enjoys the Weather Channel. Then there are those of us who would rather put it all together while making our own observations and forecasts using our own weather equipment and instruments. This portion of the population is known as “weather bugs, weather nuts, weather aficionados, weather hounds,” and a variety of other names. The point is, these people enjoy and are sometimes obsessed by watching weather instruments and attempting to predict weather changes. Like enthusiastic sports fans, these weather bugs can usually tell you just about everything there is to know about weather. They read about it, they watch it on TV and they go to all the online forums and weather chat lines. Many of them go to yearly or even monthly weather hound conventions. One thing is certain: every one of them will have his or her own weather station. Most of these will be wireless, digital home weather stations and they’ll have sensors placed all over their own property and often throughout the entire neighborhood. Though they don’t have the high sophistication that [...]

By Craig Wicks In this age of digital technology, with instant access to up-to-the-minute data, forecasts, and images from the National Weather Service (NWS) and innumerable other online sources; with timely reports from local broadcasters and cable television networks; with personalized forecasts and storm alerts sent directly to your email, pager, or cell phone; why would anyone need a home weather station? The answer to that question lies right there in your backyard, where the weather conditions you experience at home are often not the same as any of those resources might suggest. We know that all too well living here in southwest Virginia, as weather conditions up on the mountain ridges can be completely different from those down in the valleys. Fortunately, keeping an eye on local weather conditions using your own state-of-the-art weather station has never been easier or more affordable. Whether simple or elaborate, home weather stations will provide you with information that cannot be obtained anywhere else. And having the ability to glance over at your weather station console from the comfort of your couch or armchair is not only convenient, but fascinating as well. Depending on desired features and accessories, electronic weather station prices can range [...]

By Lance Winslow Wind is a sophisticated pattern and in linear mathematics appears to be a complex system, however the patterns of wind within an atmosphere while taking into consideration ambient temperatures and land formations, may not be as complex as we believe. As a matter of fact we have knowledge of many patterns in nature, which start from very simplistic formulas. It appears that simplicity breeds complexity and that complexity can reverse the same process in many instances where those systems have tendencies and characteristics which promote change or chaos. As we learned how to unlock the mathematics, which can solve the factoring of prime numbers within computational complexity of algorithms in systems of cryptonics, we may find that this is in fact relatively easy using multiple level equations in a slight modification of our current understanding and usage of mathematics. Soon, we will then discover how simple such patterns in nature actually are. The patterns of wind are interesting and take on the appearance of being so complex that they many simply throw up their hands give up in trying to mathematically predict it. Yet, we can predict it since we have formulas for much of what we know [...]