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This web was last updated on 11/20/08.
Click on image above for a north-to-south North Cascades sunrise panorama . L to R include Tomyhoi Peak, Mt. Larrabee, Bearpaw Mtn., Church Mtn., Mt. Shuksan, a too-bright sun!, Mt. Baker, Black Buttes, North Sister. Image made from summit of Sumas Mountain on February 18, 2008 with a HP Photosmart R817 point-and-shoot using stitched mode.
The
goal
here is
rather lofty: to make this webpage an informative, useful,
fun, and perhaps even
motivational or inspirational resource for students
and others who deliberately seek it out or
accidentally stumble upon it.
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Look at the
impressive winds measured at
Camp
Muir at 10,000 feet on Mt. Rainier. Nearly every major storm brings winds
of 100 mph +, but sometimes during the worst storms the instruments
are iced up and record no velocity for wind....hardly the true
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Here you will find information about Whatcom Community College's geology courses and the classes I am currently teaching, information about my background and interests (Leisure Times), most of which are closely connected to my profession as a geology instructor), and links to information about many topics, which I intend primarily to be used by students to further your learning, but which have also proven to be useful and interesting for many people, based on feedback I have received. Just click on the titles above to skip directly to the appropriate page. To skip directly to my office hours, click here. To plan your next geological excursion or simply to gaze at pictures, go to Leisure Times and click on whatever looks appealing. You never know what you might learn. To investigate things about all sorts of stuff, click on any underlined word or go to Links . After all, what would a webpage be without links?
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"The Internet promised us the world, but instead gives us pictures of people's cats." Jon Eberly Consider yourselves lucky, because with maybe about 487 pictures elsewhere on this webpage this is the only one showing a cat (or perhaps you prefer looking at cute big-eyed cats like Lawrence here rather than wrinkled old geology instructors) . |
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Check out the Photo gallery, just for the fun of it. |
Weather: Don't deny it, you too are interested, I know it. If you'd like to know weather specifics beyond merely what the glance outside the window reveals, or if you're not in this area and want to picture the dynamic weather we usually have here, do a search for current weather conditions for Bellingham and alas! You'll see that merely specifying Bellingham is not good enough.
Did you know? There are four Bellinghams in the U.S...... Washington, one in southwestern Minnnesota, another in southern Massachusetts, and yet another in South Carolina, but the latter must be too tiny to even warrant a weather station. |
Here is the forecast for
Bellingham, Washington, and you can also
check the
15
day forecast to plan your outdoor activities. You can even get the remarkably
interesting if not always precisely accurate
hourly
forecast to see if you'll be wet or dry, hot or cold, during your bike ride on
Galbraith Mountain, your morning run at
Whatcom Falls Park, or your
evening walk on
Sehome Hill. But perhaps the best place to get good
weather information is this one from the
National Weather Service.
Or
you can try this very interesting informative site:
Weatherbonk, which in terms of useful
information beats almost all others, hands down! Google
provides a link to local official and personal weather stations. All of the
weather stations are plotted on the map as simplified
color-coded station models. Click on a station and obtain graphs of the current
conditions and a 5-day forecast. To access this resource first go to your local
weather station by entering a zip code or local address at
www.wunderground.com Once at your local weather page, scroll
to just below Current Conditions and open Google Map of
Personal Weather Stations. You can navigate to the entire North American
continent and see local real-time conditions at thousands of locations.
Feeling cold? Then look what it's
like in Honolulu today:
And now for something completely different: Note! Vostok quite often doesn't report weather conditions during the Antarctic winter (maybe the researchers are too preoccupied with just staying alive inside their Quonset huts to fiddle with details like weather data). Check back later for sure signs of life (i.e., these weather reports).
Lots of people have a "weather sticker" on their homepage so that all visitors to the page can check out how wonderful (or awful) the weather is somewhere, usually at the web owner's hometown. However, since most of you readers are in Bellingham, why not just look out the window? But if you glanced at the weather sticker above, you have just read the current conditions at, on average, the world's coldest spot: Vostok, Antarctica! Just by contemplating the temperature there, do you suddenly feel a little warmer?
For undetermined reasons I sometimes get referred to
as Mr.
Trivia
. Whatever, but in Vostok the temperature gets down to - 80° , -90° , even
-100° Fahrenheit regularly during the Southern Hemisphere winter.
Temperatures increase markedly as soon as the sun makes its appearance above
the horizon, then decrease just as dramatically when the sun finally drops below the
horizon for months on end. Vostok has the world's record surface
minimum temperature, -128.6° F, but perhaps
even more amazing is that the average temperature there is
-70° F!
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This Month's Daily High and Low
Temperatures
Also check
Weather Matrix
Hourly US
Statistics (not always accurate),
U.S. Daily Records Set
Office Location: LDC 224
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Fall Quarter 2008 Office Hours: These are the times I am predictably in my office. Drop-ins are welcome, and you can set up an appointment if these times aren't convenient for you. If for no other reason, come on by on a clear day, when one can see Mt. Baker overlooking Bellingham, as shown in the view at left,
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