SciShow Tangents26 Jan 2021

Weather

Weather is an evergreen small talk topic, and after this episode of Tangents you will be fully equipped to blow the socks off every grocery store clerk, dental technician, and next door neighbor you meet with your in-depth knowledge of wind, precipitation, and more!

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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:

[Brain Storm]

Falling animals

https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/can-it-rain-frogs-fish-and-other-objects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/strange-rain-why-fish-frogs-and-golf-balls-fall-skies-180956527/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish

https://www.thelocal.no/20150416/earthworms-rain-from-sky-over-southern-norway

Automated Weather Observing Systems

https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Automated_Weather_Observing_System_(AWOS)

https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_150_5220-16E.pdf

Cloud seeding

https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/25/270084/weather-engineering-in-china/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899086.stm

https://web.archive.org/web/20111123025420/http://www.ceawmt.in/indian_history.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000484

https://www.ncm.ae/en/details.html?id=825&lid=575

https://www.popsci.com/smog-cloud-seeding-thailand/

https://web.archive.org/web/20161105045733/http://thainews.prd.go.th/website_en/news/news_detail/WNEVN5903040010016

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ncfa-wcs012606.php

https://journalofweathermodification.org/index.php/JWM/article/view/474

https://www.weathermod-bg.eu/index_en.php

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-fires-siberia/russia-seeds-clouds-in-siberia-to-douse-raging-wildfires-idUSKBN24B1JT

[Fact Off]

Tempest Prognosticator

Pic here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/tempest-prognosticator-predicting.html

https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/cloud-watching-understanding-weather/

https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/science/3898-can-you-predict-the-weather-with-leeches

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech

https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-used-leaches-to-predict-the-weather

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leeches-predict-weather-tempest-prognosticator

AMDAR

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088613

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4

https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/aircraft-based-observations/amdar/about-amdar

https://amdar.noaa.gov/docs/bams/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Acid rain

https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what-acid-rain

http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem1/L26/3.html

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/acid-rain-and-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification

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