Secrets & science of the skies
How to interpret the weather just by looking, listening, smelling, and feeling.
As a kid, I was obsessed with Eric Sloane’s book Look at the Sky (Ashley loves Sloane’s books, too). His clever illustrations explaining meteorologic science let me see more than crocodiles and pterodactyls in the clouds. Sloane taught me that a looming cumulonimbus meant a storm was brewing. A lone cirrus indicated that the weather would stay nice. And while I still don’t always heed these messages from the sky myself, I‘m pretty pleased when I can guess whether or not a raincoat is necessary attire.
It’s in this spirit that we created the Tinybop Weather Journal to accompany the Weather app. In the Weather app, kids explore the science of the skies by peering into the microscopic drops of a cloud and watching invisible ice particles form snowflakes. But, there’s lots to learn about the weather by what we can see, smell, hear, and feel, too. See for yourself… If for nothing else, it’s fun to notice small trees swaying and say, “that’s a fresh breeze out there.”
Download your own Weather Journal, complete with data pages so you and your kid(s) can track your observations, here. We hope you enjoy it!
— Sara
