TUTTs

[Laplacian]

I'm sure the folks interested in the western Pacific and Atlantic will encounter tropical upper tropospheric troughs (TUTTs) this season. As a way to introduce myself, I thought I'd share a Web page from Meteo 241, which is an online tropical forecasting course I wrote and taught at Penn State.

You can access it here:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/worldof ... /node/2067

I am retiring this month after 42 years of teaching, but I understand that NHC's Stacy Stewart will be teaching Meteo 241 in the Fall as a Practitioner faculty member. Please keep in mind that there's a prerequisite for Meteo 241 that students must satisfy before they're eligible to take the tropical forecasting course. For more information:

http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees- ... e/overview

At any rate, I thought I'd share the section on TUTTs just as a way to introduce myself. I copied the page from the password-protected course onto a Web site (A World of Weather) that I sometimes use to give public access to some of my online materials.

A couple of my former students swear by this Web site, so I thought I'd give it a try in retirement.

Thanks.

Laplacian (my friends call me "del square")

[wxman57]

Welcome again, Laplacian, and thanks for the website. Is Stacey Stewart going to leave the NHC to teach this course?

[Laplacian]

No.

He's taught other classes in Meteo...I think locally. So this is just a switch from resident instruction to online instruction, which is actually more flexible than traditional classroom teaching.