Students will learn how to use the instruments, then go out and take their own observations.
Lightning is an amazing force, and vital to the planet.
Learn how lightning happens, and how to be safe if a thunderstorm threatens. Of course, we will also make lightning in class with our 500,000 volt Van de Graaf generator. The Outreach folks have produced a documentary on what Meteorologists and other weather folk do. This 54 minute video is available for loan or sale. Here are the curveballs Nature still throws at us.