Dec. 09 - Last day of class, final exam information
Dec. 02 - Hurricanes
Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 25 - Tornadoes pt. 2, lightning
Nov. 20 - Microbursts and severe thunderstorms, tornadoes pt. 1
Nov. 18 - Surface winds in the northern & southern hemisphere, water draining from sinks & toilets, thunderstorms
Cause of the Coriolis force - optional reading
Nov. 13 - Newton's 1st law of motion, pressure gradient and Coriolis forces, upper level and surface winds in the northern & southern hemispheres
Nov. 11 - Veteran's Day Holiday

Nov. 6 - Quiz #3 (music: Carla Morrison (feat. Nina Diaz, Teri Gender Bender) "Dejenme Llorar", "Hasta La Piel", Dum Dum Girls "Under These Hands"
Nov. 4 - Collision coalescence and ice crystal precipitation processes, types of precipitation
Satellite photographs of clouds - Optional reading though probably to be a future 1S1P topic
Condensation nuclei and cloud droplet formation - Optional reading
 Oct. 30 - Condensation nuclei, cloud-in-a-bottle, identifying and naming clouds
Oct. 28 - Humidity problems, drying moist air, rainshadow effect, measuring humidity, heat index, the drinking bird, condensation nuclei?
Saturating air with water vapor - suggested reading
Oct. 23 - Effects of clouds on day & night temperatures, global warming misconception, introduction to humidity variables
Oct. 21 - Light emitted by the earth & sun, radiative equilibrium, filtering effect of the atmosphere, the atmospheric greenhouse effect

Oct. 16 - Quiz #2  (music: George Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue" )
Oct. 14 - Electromagnetic radiation, rules governing the emission of EM radiation, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and color temperature
Oct. 09 - Energy transport by conduction, convection, and latent heat.
Oct. 07 - Upper level charts (brief mention), introduction to energy and energy transport, measuring the energy needed to evaporate liquid nitrogen
Upper Level Charts pt. 3 - recommended reading
Upper Level Charts pt. 2 - suggested reading
Upper Level Charts pt. 1 - required reading
Oct. 02 - Weather changes caused by warm and cold fronts, locating fronts on a surface weather map
Sep. 30 - Surface weather maps: isobars & isotherms, pressure gradient & wind, fronts

Sep. 25 - Quiz #1 (music: Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini "Dare To Live", Andrea Bocelli, Elisa "La Voce del Silenzio", Elisa "Dancing")
Sep. 23 - Surface weather maps and the station model notation
Sep. 18 - Ideal gas law, Charles' law, vertical forces acting on air parcels, Archimedes principle
Sep. 16 - Air density changes with altitude; principle of the mercury barometer; troposphere & stratosphere;
                August, Jacques & Bertrand Piccard; Felix Baumgartner & the Red Bull Stratos Space Dive
Sep. 11 - Rate of pressure decrease with altitude; air pressure pushes upward, downward, & sideways, Practice Quiz
Sep. 09 - Mass, weight, density, and pressure
Sep. 04 - Air quality index, carbon monoxide poisoning, sulfur dioxide & London-type smog, acid rain, particulate matter
Sep. 02 - Air pollutants, carbon monoxide, ozone and photochemical smog, scattering of light
Aug. 28 - Origin & evolution of the earth's atmosphere; oxygen and ozone;
                 photosynthesis, stromatolites and banded iron formation; trace gases and pollutants
Aug. 26 - First day of class, composition of the atmosphere, dew point temperature