How The Weatherworks

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Weather camps for 2012 are already in the planning stages. Our flagship site, Howard University in Washington, DC, will have one high school residence camp, one middle school commuting camp and one or more elementary special camp experience days. Camps (either middle and/or high school) will also be held in Mayaguez (PR), New York City (NY), El Paso (TX), Greensboro (NC), Jackson (MS), Lincoln (NE), Norman (OK), Miami (FL), Houston (TX) and Phoenix (AZ). Work has begun on expanding the weather camp program to more than a dozen sites by the summer of 2013. This will be done in conjunction with existing partners and requested funding. Look for additional details during the next few months.

Thanks to our weather camper connectivities, we are now heavily involved in fostering the nationwide growth of Foot's Forecast, an innovative weather forecasting program showcasing the talents of interested high school and underclass college undergraduates. Check in to see what future meteorologists are capable of delivering in the way of weather services.

The series entitled “Weather and Climate of the States,” is now appearing in Weatherwise Magazine. In November 2008, the initial article about Florida appeared. Articles about Alaska, Maryland-DC-Delaware, South Dakota, California, Southern New England, West Virginia and Oregon have followed. Additional articles will appear during the next several years until all states (or groups of states) and Puerto Rico have been published. The well-liked articles are being written by state experts including climatologists, private sector and TV meteorologists, university faculty and others. H. Michael Mogil conceived the idea for the series, is co-authoring the articles and is serving as its organizational editor.

H. Michael Mogil now writes for three examiner.com titles: Weather in Fort Myers-Naples area, Weather nationally and Education nationally.

Barbara Levine and H. Michael Mogil participated at the USA Science Festival (Washington, DC - Oct 2010), and at various regional and national NSTA/NESTA conferences (fall 2010 - fall 2011); they have also taught a programs for librarians on "science fairs" and they co-taught (via Skype) a program for Hillsborough County (Tampa area) teachers in October 2011. They will also offer activities and a stage show program about weather at the AAAS Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC - February 2012).

We have also just re-introduced our "geoscience in the news" web page. This page will feature links to key geoscience news stories.

Finally, Sky Awareness Week is coming in April 22-28, 2012. But, anytime is a good time to look up and enjoy the sky show above. Recently, here in Florida, we saw single and double rainbows several times a week!