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StormHour's mission is to promote meteorology & weather photography & provide a platform & resource for amateurs & professionals alike.

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A few Stats.In seven years on Twitter, we have Retweeted photographers and meteorologists 1.22 million times from our two primary accounts @StormHour and @ThePhotoHourThat equates to 478 times per day, every day for seven years, including weekends and Bank Holidays. Since July 2016,

Q and A with Featured Photographer Richard Gatley

Richard is a professional pilot and an amateur photographer based in the UK. You can find Richard on Instagram or follow him on Twitter to check out his latest work.Richard's most memorable photographic event was being caught by surprise by a Soyuz launch after sunset in Eastern

The Layers of the Atmosphere

A mountain climber will know that the air becomes colder the higher you ascend, by about one degree centigrade every 150 metres. Since sunlight is absorbed by the ground, the ground becomes warmer. In the overturning troposphere, energy is transmitted upward by the reradiation of heat and the rise

Trade Winds Explained

Image by KaidorThe trade winds are easterly wind systems that blow near the equator. The winds assist vessels in travelling west, and they can even steer storms like hurricanes.The steady Trade Winds wind provided a safe passage for European and American mariners to travel between Europe and

Milankovitch Cycles

The Milankovitch cycles (named after the mathematician and meteorologist Milutin Milankovitch) are incredibly long astronomical trends that affect the dispersion of solar energy and have been suggested to be the ice age pacemakers.One of the most constant features of our weather is the seemingly

Sudden Stratospheric Warming

Every couple of years or so, high in the atmosphere, huge breaking waves of air reverse the prevailing westerly winds and cause a sudden and dramatic warming of the stratosphere in winter.Sudden Stratospheric Warmings can herald significant changes in the weather at the earth’s surface. After