Weather

New weather web site

The Gallaghers — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:40:53 +0000

I set up a new website to track my interest in weather.

Go over and visit www.wxchicago.com

DuPage Severe Weather Seminar

The Gallaghers — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:20:01 +0000

Emmy & I attended the DuPage County Severe Weather Seminar last weekend. Good stuff. Info here:

http://www.dupagesevereweather.com/

Presentation at Karma Yacht Sales Open House

The Gallaghers — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:15:04 +0000

I am doing a short presentation on weather for cruising sailors tomorrow at the open house held by our friends at Karma Yacht Sales. My talk is at 1 p.m. if you can come by.

For those of you who attended the presentation here are:

My speaker notes, in PDF format
The handout given out at Karma, also in PDF

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Favorite weather books

The Gallaghers — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:50:34 +0000

Here are a list of my favorite books about weather forecasting (links on the title will take you to Amazon to purchase if available):

General Weather Books

A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology - A college-level texbook on weather, written by the directors of the Penn State Weather Forecasting Certificate I am taking. Expensive but worth it. Loose-leaf format and comes with a CD-ROM with a lot of excellent examples and illustrations.
Meteorology Today - Another introductory college-level textbook.

Weather for Sailors

North U

Weather Station

The Gallaghers — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:58:14 +0000

The graphic above is provided courtesy of the Weather Underground. We have a Davis VantagePro 2 Weather Station on our roof, which feeds data to Weather Underground. So if you are interested in whether the wind is blowing out at Wrigley, this is probably a good place to check.