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Nope. Didn’t understand anything except a balloon went up n down.

I wonder if Randall is a Trey fan youtu.be/ztrDMo6f0Ls?...

oddly reminds me of a turn performance chart

this clears things up, thank you

Skew-T? Is that what we're calling Skeets now?

The fact that I don't understand this on a fundamental level makes it much more funny.

Idea: Table with Skew-T on one column and what the glider is doing on the other column.

Ah Dave...

I'm hanging on to this graph for the next time I'm asked "will it rain in the next few days?" Looking at it, I now know why I've been hit by so many balloons...

Well... most of it. How much depends if you measure by volume or mass.

Same - teaching Atmos Thermo this semester and this is a definite keeper!!! 😆👍

#ChocolateMaking

Pretty sure this is the graph version of the Turbo Encabulator

The atmospheric adiabatic lapse rates are rarely that stable. I think you are taking the piss 🤣

#BatmanProbably is totally 100% sure that this totally is comprehended by his really awesome brain

absolutely fantastic! (me paraglider pilot)

I was laughing at this as my child walked by and said “its a map, you’re laughing at a map” lol its more of a plot, not even a map

The Heavyside Layer is the formation point for Cats-abatic winds.

@petergibbs.bsky.social

This is upside-down Utah, right?

Drunkards walk through a psychrometric chart by two engineers?

Given that in a previous career I used to create METARs and plot charts like this (by hand) these have been a nice trip down memory lane.

I love contemporary art.

it's a map of Florida. the captions are accurate.

I especially like the “Latent heat of cooling”. This is really good.

Classic Dave shenanigans, messing up those lines. It was all *so* clear before that.

Similar to a flight envelope graph. Those Aero guys love these

Almost anyone but a current glider pilot or keen storm chaser needs a cheat sheet. I've learned and forgotten a few times.

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I just learned how to read this last year & ....Oh my god, I love this🤣

Lol this needs explainxkcd more than ever

Every now and then there is an XKCD comic where I understand absolutely nothing This is one of those times 😅

how did i very briefly see the fallout: new vegas map in that diagram

I actually still have a pad of that paper from my days as a weather forecaster for my gliding club.

Seems bad. 😅

As a meteorologist I love this! I never expected to see an xkcd on this

yeah that seems to check out!

Oh this is freaking awesome.

Title text: "The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3032#Transcript