Since 1991, more than 40 states and the District of Columbia have issued proclamations in support of this growing celebration. To foster these linkages, dozens of schools across the United States and internationally will share sky data across the Internet . In 1997, NOAA launched a new geostationary weather satellite during SAW . SAW encourages people across the nation and around the world to notice the myriad of cloud types, ranging from fair weather cumulus puffs to high-flying cirrus streamers.
Late spring is a time when most places experience their most dramatics and changeable skies.
In addition to making their own weather forecasts, just as farmers and explorers used to do, people will notice that the sky is not the same color blue every day. These changes, albeit subtle are often tied to the movement of weather systems and accumulations and transport of atmospheric pollutants. This page was last updated on January 3, 2001.