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Weather for Travelers

CLIMATIC SUMMARIES – Month-by-month detailed summaries of the most likely weather at more than a thousand travel destinations around the world. Here you will find information on how much sunshine the place gets, morning and afternoon temperatures, how warm the water is, how often does it rain, how much snow falls—plus a great deal more.

USING THE CLIMATIC SUMMARIES – Click here if you are having trouble viewing or downloading the summaries. Here you will also find tips on using the summaries, how they are prepared, and (quite frankly) more than you could possibly want to know about them.

CLIMATE CHANGE – Here you will find writings on global warming and other aspects of climate change. They range from the popular to the highly technical. Be warned! I am a scientist, not an activist. I believe that carbon dioxide is an important element in the current global warming, but I do not believe that is the only contributing factor or even the most important one.

THE KINETIC ATMOSPHERE (PDF) – This section contains papers viewing atmospheric characteristics and behavior through the lens of kinetic gas theory and statistical mechanics. Some of the papers may be understood by an intelligent and well-educated layperson. Others require some familiarity with atmospheric physics, kinetic gas theory, statistical mechanics, and mathematics through the calculus. Test yourself. You may be pleasantly surprised. All papers are in the Adobe PDF format.

OTHER WRITINGS – This section contains a wide variety of writings on a wide variety of subjects. It contains articles written for popular magazines and books, philosophical writings, political writings, and even—gasp!—romantic poetry.