Reading Water
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Tag: How to Read Water
New UK Paperback Covers
My UK publisher Hodder Press have redesigned the covers of six of my paperbacks. What do you think of the new look for the collection?
How to Use Plants to Map Wet Ground
All plants need water and all plants are sensitive to the levels of water in the ground. This means that every plant can make a…
A Glorious Filming Day
After cancelling one day due to a storm, we were rewarded for our patience today – what an amazing January day. We were filming clues…
Sign of the Week
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Shadows are a Sign of Impure Water
Can you see me waving? Shadows are a Sign of Impurities in the Water. From my book, How to Read Water: “You will never see…
Water Flows the Wrong Way at the Edge of Rivers
At the edge of rivers, friction causes water to slow down. This leads to eddies – water that turns in circles. In some places the eddies…
How to Spot Subtle Patterns in Water
To spot subtle patterns in water, look where dark and light reflections touch each other. On calm days, the surface of water can appear still,…
Surface Patterns Reveal Water Depth
Whenever waves meet shallow water, the patterns change. We can use these new patterns as clues to the depth of water. It doesn’t matter the…
Which Direction Are We Walking?
Which Direction Are We Walking in the video above? North, East, South or West? There are clues in the the trees, the light, the mud,…
What is a Stationary or Standing Wave?
A stationary or standing wave forms when water is pulled back against the flow by gravity. When water flows over an underwater ledge and then…
The Effect of Air Pressure on Tide Heights
High air pressure leads to lower than expected tides. The opposite is also true: low air pressure leads to higher than expected tides. We can…
What is Clapotis?
When waves reflect back off a sea wall, they meet more incoming waves and this can set up a totally new wave pattern called ‘clapotis’…
Between the Covers
Water readers, make sure to watch Between the Covers with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Sara Cox on BBC2 at 7pm tonight, Monday 27th March. You might…
Seabiscuit Gets Dunked
My thanks to Ellen Grieve for sharing her extraordinary experience in this guest blog: It was just an ordinary Friday night in November for this…
The Stickiness of Water
Water rises up and forms individual droplets on leaves because it is ‘sticky’, it is literally attracted to itself. The hydrogen atoms in each molecule…
BUMPER HOLIDAYS PUZZLE
Here is a bumper photo puzzle that went out in my newsletter email earlier this month (you can sign up for that at the bottom…
Navigating by Sea Swells off Foula, Shetland
Here is a lovely nod to sailors navigating by sea swells off the Shetland Isles – it is rare to find reference to this swell…
Does Dowsing Work?
An old investigation into dowsing, also known as ‘water divining’. Let’s us start with an interesting extract on the subject of dowsing, or water-divining, from…
From a Raindrop to a River
Here is an extraordinary and fun website that shows where any raindrop will end up over the US. https://river-runner.samlearner.com/ Have a play! You might also…
Fish Frenzy at Water Surface – Predator Sign
Early this morning I saw an interesting sign in the water, a clue that fish were trying to defy a predator. At about 6am, I…