Ideas for Using the WeatherGuide Calendar Wolf Ridge included a Freshwater Society Weatherguide calendar in your packets for Spring and Fall Happenings because it is such a great resource for following and learning about all sorts of natural phenomena, including weather, phenology, and astronomy.

The calendar's features include:

For Each Month

• Average precipitation, temperature, and snowfall
• Daily sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, average temperatures and precipitation
• Sunrise and sunset maps for Minnesota
• Sun declination (arc of the sun across the sky)
• Wind Rose, showing trends in wind direction and speed
• Phenology events to watch for by the week
• Sky charts
• Weather history

General Information Pages

Ideas for using the WeatherGuide with Spring and Fall Happenings

• Write the daily temperature and sky cover (use cloud chart) on the calendar. Compare to the average listed for that day.
• Use the daily weather information to create graphs, calculate local averages, etc.
• Make predictions for local weekly weather based on past averages.
• Study the wind rose and it's implications on weather patterns.
• Look for weather trends based on the sun declination charts.
• Record phenology observations on the calendar.
• Look at the weekly phenology information and look for those events locally.