Occasional musings on meteorology and other bits of Earth science
One of the odd jobs that I have ended up doing is the care and maintenance of our gravity meters. We are lucky to have these instruments; they are very long-lived and a new one would be a very expensive purchase. The fact that we have three in working order is largely because one ofContinue reading Gravity: the vintage gear keeps on working
Last summer I posted a picture of two broccoli plants that had refused to flower and had grown to a large size instead. I speculated at the time that a second winter might prompt them to produce an enormous crop. It did, sort of. The one on the right is a normal-sized plant on topContinue reading A land of giants: the followup
As I have noted before, a side effect of having been on the Helmsdale geology excursion with the geophysics students is that I can not walk past a sandstone wall without looking for examples of current bedding. Sometimes there are other things to be seen as well. This block is in High School Yards andContinue reading Faulting close to home
As noted in a previous post, we had a nice view of the recent eclipse from Edinburgh, and we also took readings of various meteorological variables as part of Reading University’s NEWEX experiment. The plot below shows the temperature data recorded by some keen meteorology students, along with temperatures and solar irradiance data from ourContinue reading Solar Eclipse: the weather report
