As Kira mentioned below, we went to Blades Elementary School in Seaford, Del. this past week. The kids were great and we were asked a lot of outstanding questions. To all the math and science geeks in the world, today is a “holiday” and it reminded me of a question that was asked on our visit to Blades Elementary School and another visit I had earlier this week at the Wicomico Family Support Center here in Salisbury, Md.
“How do we forecast?”
Without getting into too much detail about this question, we look to different forecast models showing several different layers of the atmosphere. The models can represent the forecast as text or pictures, but all of this information comes from extremely long mathematical equations. Fortunately for all of us meteorologists, the computers can crunch the numbers a lot quicker than we ever could! While learning about meteorology in school, Justin, Kira and I all had to solve several equations by hand to understand the atmosphere and all of its crazy weather! (And I have to point out, there is an equation for everything!) But one symbol we all wrote time after time, was Pi, 3.14159265358979323846…
Have a great Pi Day!
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