My science students have been practicing weather observation and some basic forecast. They check out the current barometric pressure and the predicted barometric pressure for the next day and they write a weather forecast.

Yesterday they predicted bad weather today. Right now, it’s foggy, rainy and snowy, windy, and some of the really big waves I can see hitting the south end of big diomede (southerly wind means the big waves hit the south sides of the islands) are crashing well over a hundred feet high.

Success.