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Weather sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Weather.

Temperature palindromes: Handy reference points for converting fahrenheit to celsius - 82-28 and 61-16Temperature Palindromes: Converting Between Fahrenheit and CelsiusSnerdle meaning in English: To wrap up snugly beneath the covers and ignore the world. 18th Century dialect. By SketchplanationsSnerdleComplaining at the weather illustration: An adult complains about the rain, the sun and the snow while a child enjoy all threeComplaining at the weatherTwo hikers look at distant lightning and count how long it takes to hear the thunder to estimate how far the lightning is awayFlash-to-bang methodAn urban area next to a more natural rural area showing how the urban area gets hotter than the surrounding landHeat islandsBanner cloud on the Matterhorn showing strong wind of cold dry air on one side and warmer humid air on the other producing the cloud in a banner shapeBanner cloudWeather and Climate illustration: weather is likened to the notes and loose change kept in your purse and the climate is likened to a graph showing your financial status over a long period of time. Weather and climate: an analogyWhat causes seasons showing how it is caused by the earths tilt and light hitting differently in the north and south hemispheresSeasonsWhat is Lake effect snow explained including the snow beltLake-effect snowDirty thunderstorm definition, explanation and exampleDirty thunderstormThunder cloudsYesterday’s weatherRain shadowLenticular cloudsKnow your cloudsIt’s not so much the weather itself, it’s the unpredictabilityVisitors from other climates
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