Weather and Waves workshop

Who: NSPN members interested in understanding weather and waves (should be all!)

Location: Gould Barn, Topsfield, MA. Directions below.

Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm (approximately)

Fee for workshop: None

Overview: Weather and waves-potential syllabus

1.) Warm fronts and cold fronts

2.) Cyclonic and anti-cyclonic wind patterns with highs/lows

3.) Approach of warm fronts – cloud sequence

4.) Approach of cold fronts

5.) How thunderstorms develop

6.) Wind patterns with squall lines and thunderstorms

7.) Estimating distances of thunderstorms and squalls

8.) Other weather predictors

9.) Basics of water waves – amplitude, wavelength, period

10.) Swells

11.) Wind driven waves – breaking and building

12.) Waves and land

a. Shoals and breaking

b. Steep topography and dumping

c. Cliffs and reflections

d. Clapotis

13.) Currents – points, constrictions

14.) Eddies

RSVP please: Email [email protected] to RSVP. Please include your ACA number, email address and phone number. This event is open only to NSPN members.

Directions:

From the south, take Rt. 1 north exit off of Route I-95. Follow that to Rt. 97 west into Topsfield. At the stop sign, the library will be on your left and a small side street immediately before the stop sign is on your right - that is East Common Street . Take a right onto this street and park in the lot on the right that is for the Emerson Center/Congregational Church.

From the north, take I-95 south to the Topsfield Rt. 97 exit. Proceed to Congregational Church on the right and Town Common on the left. Make a left turn onto Route 97 East, for 1/2 a second and then take a SHARP left onto East Common St and park in the lot on the right that is for the Emerson Center/Congregational Church.

We have permission to park there from the church.