The Did You Know Show noreply@blogger.com (Fred)

DYK 17 - solar flares and sunspots, and their effects on Earth's climate...visit www.dykshow.blogspot.com Streaming Audio: Click Below *NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

DYK 16 - the adaptation of plants to desert life...visit www.dykshow.blogspot.com Streaming Audio: Click Below Photos of the plants: *Adeniums are examples of pachycaul plants. *Huge adenium *the Creosote Push - an example of a plant that can remove water from the soil so effectively that it needs little storage and no CAM. *View Fred's Photo Album - (The Asphodelaceae, which includes Aloes and Haworthias, show some CAM plants with their succulent leaves. The Agavaceae, the Aizoaceae, the Bromeliaceae are also CAM plants with their succulent leaves. The Cactaceae are stem succulent CAM plants. The Apocynaceae show pachycaul plants.) *Baobab Trees, the largest of the pachycal plants.

DYK15 - Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms...visit www.dykshow.blogspot.com Streaming Audio: Click Below For more information: *Funnel Cloud Reports in the UK *Skew-T Example

DYK14 - Extratropical Cyclones...visit www.dykshow.blogspot.com Streaming Audio: Click Below For more information on extratropical cyclones and the fronts associated with them: *Low Pressure Area *Fred's Discussions about Fronts: FRONTS ONE, FRONTS TWO, FRONTS THREE, FRONTS FOUR.

DYK13-Tropical Cyclones (Hurricanes)...visit www.dykshow.blogspot.com Streaming Audio: Click Below *Forecast of storm tracks and intensities given by several models. *The NHC site: The buttons on the left will take you to satellite images, U. S. radar sites, and give recon reports. Additionally, it has discussions given by the NHC. *The FSU site: This site will show the storm positions of several of the Global models and the more advanced TC dynamic models. *This site shows heat potential, SST, SS height anomalies, and depth of the 26C isotherm in the Gulf of Mexico. Buttons to the left will give the same information of other ocean basins. Click on the maps to magnify. *The Joint Typhoon Warning Center: They also cover the Pacific south of the Equator and the entire Indian Ocean. *Punch the button on the left to obtain historical TC tracks and intensities for all Ocean Basins. *The Cuban Radar site: I found it useful for hurricanes Gustav and Ike. This site downloads rather slowly.

DYK12 - Computer Models and Meteorology...visit www.dykshow.blogspot.com. *http://www.txtornado.net/weather : This site has not only the NCEP models, but also the UKMET and ECMWF. The UKMET and ECMWF are in a abbreviated form. This site is very user friendly. *http://weather.cod.edu/: This site has similar products. It is from the College of DuPage. *http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/: This is the NCAR webpage. *http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/charts/index_e.html: This is the Canadian site. *http://euler.atmos.colostate.edu/~vigh/guidance/: This shows several of the forecast tracks of tropical cyclones. Only the Atlantic basin and the northeast Pacific are available. *http://moe.met.fsu.edu/tcgengifs/: This is some of the individual forecast tracks of tropical cyclones. *Vacuum Tubes *Transistors *Silicon Chip *GFS: Global Forecast System *RUC: Rapid Update Cycle