Contrail Drift

 

Contrail Headed to Pearson International
midday on Winter Solstice 2021

Practice is important. Learn the science and then apply and reapply daily. Like sunscreen. 

Science Tuesday "Weather Watching Guide - Contrails" from this past February described how contrails could talk. As a result of decades of observation, I knew what this contrail was saying. You might know the answer intuitively without refreshing the science background. It is OK to guess but clients of my meteorological predictions when I was employed by Environment Canada, preferred the science. Clients making important decisions based on those forecasts often asked "how and why" I knew something should happen. 

On another Science Tuesday, I wrote about the down-side of contrails in "Blue Sky Blues". Unnatural alteration of the natural environment was a theme of that Blog entry and many others. The 2021 ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7, peaking at 24.8 million square kilometers – roughly the size of North America. This hole ranks as the 13th largest since 1979 and is likely still persisting into December. This leads back to the application of sunscreen. 

My goal is simply to learn more about the natural world and its laws and maybe share that information. Perhaps through science we can help protect nature and make sound, ecological practices a part of everyday life. Listening to nature is a good thing. We should all do it more often. 

Keep you paddle in the water and warmest regards,

Phil the Forecaster