"I wish I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever."

Yesterday afternoon in class at the Lubbock Lake Landmark, we learned about the weather. The goal for our professor was that we would be able to look at the whether conditions (clouds, wind, temperature etc.) and know how to predict the weather the next day.  So, in order to give my prediction, I feel like it's important that I note what I actually knew about the weather up until yesterday in class:

Before lightning strikes you, your hair gets really static-y.
The cows lie down in pastures if it's gonna rain that day.
If the sky is green looking, there's probably gonna be hail.
Some people can smell the rain coming... my mom being one of those.
The weather channel lies sometimes.
In kindergarten, you were the coolest if you got to be the weather kid for that week. I was never the coolest.
If I wear a white t-shirt to school that day, it'll probably rain.
If I bring my laptop to school that day, then it'll probably rain.
If I wear a white t-shirt AND bring my laptop in my backpack that day, hold on to your umbrellas because a downpour is on its way.

So.. needless to say - my knowledge was limited, and, to be truthful, it still kinda is.  Not that my professor did a bad job of explaining it, but because weather is sorta like how some people consider math. I just don't get it. I know how to check the weather online, and that's about it.

But here's what I learned in a very simplified way:
 cumulous clouds are the cotton ball lookin' ones. They usually follow a cold front and mean warm weather is on its way.

cumulonimbus are the towering stormy looking cotton balls with a flat bottom side. This is kind of the middle man cloud --- when the Barometric pressure had dropped before but now it's rising or vice versa.
cirrus clouds are the ones that are light, wispy, and look like fish scales high up in the sky and they are NOT at the end of cold fronts.

So to do my prediction, for today, here's what the weather looked like yesterday afternoon:
Cold. Like 50 F
Lots of cumulous clouds.
Some cirrus clouds.
Some cumulonimbus clouds.
Normal wind around 22 MPH
Wind gusts coming from the NW that made you feel like you were in one of the scenes from Wizard of Oz... to be more specific, right before Dorothy gets knocked out by a shutter that's going crazy in the wind. After walking three miles in the Wizard of Oz weather, I can relate.

From what it looked like yesterday, I'd say that the cold front had already hit, and was about to pack up and leave town.  There were some cirrus, so it wasn't completely packed, but it was getting close.  So, I'd say that today the front is leaving and that it will be warmer and there will be lighter winds.

When I walked outside to let Chewy out this morning, it was pretty damn cold still, so I'd say that the cold front hasn't left yet and we could probably expect a lot of cumulous clouds later in the morning.


Also, I would just like to thank my classmates who lent me a jacket, cardigan and socks whenever we realized that our professor was not kidding about going outside yesterday despite the weather: