The Windy.app Meteorological Textbook for better weather forecasting
What affects the weather on your favorite spot? Why does the ocean act like this and not otherwise? Where does the Northern Lights come from? In Windy.app Meteorological Textbook (WMT) we are explaining in simple words the processes in the atmosphere, the ocean, and the earth. To keep an eye on the weather is even more interesting with Windy.app!
The Windy.app Meteorological Textbook (WMT) front cover showing the Coriolis force. Illustration: Valerya Milovanova, design: Ivan Kuznetsov / Windy.app
The idea of the textbook is to explain to you the basic, most interesting, and just bright meteorological and physical terms and phenomena in a simple language. So simple that no one else does so except Windy.app. So you read about the particular terms, understand everything and you have no questions. And you can retell it to others.
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Atmosphere (Air)
Layers of atmosphere
Five main layers of atmosphere
Why are autumn and winter so dreary, and what can we do about it?
Temperature
Heating of the atmosphere from the ground
Stable and unstable atmospheric stratification
Precipitation
Snow on the top of the mountains
Wind
Clouds
Humidity
The weight of humid and dry air
Turbulence
Weather fronts
Cold fronts and warm weather fronts
Tropical cyclones
Tornadoes
Atmospheric pressure
High and low atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric optics
Atmospheric electricity
How to protect yourself from lightning
Where in the sky do elves and trolls come from?
Coriolis force
Hydrosphere (Water)
Methane bubbles, beautiful and dangerous
Temperature
Sea temperature in Mediterranean Sea
Waves
Currents
Brinicle — the underwater stalactite
Tides
Floods
Lithosphere (Land)
How weather changes the topography
Biosphere (Life)
Solunar
Magnetosphere (Magnetism)
Earth's magnetic field
Reversal of Earth's magnetic poles
Outer space (Cosmos)
Moon
Stars
Radiation
Activities
The physics of Wakeboarding and water skiing
The physics of skiing and snowboarding
Human survival at great depths
The light and dark side of wind power generation
Predicting the weather using omens
Updated on February 03, 2025
Text: Windy.app team
