TIP – BE A CLOUDSPOTTER

No special shoes or drive to the soccer field are required for 'clouding'. 

A young person just needs a view of the sky (even if it's from a bedroom window) and a guidebook. Cirrostratus, cumolonimbus, or lenticularis, shaped like flying saucers, "come to remind us that the clouds are Nature's poetry, spoken in a whisper in the rarefied air between crest and crag," writes Gavin Pretor-Pinney in his wonderful book 'The Cloudspotter's Guide'. [Richard Louv]

To build a backyard weather station, read 'The Kid's Book of Weather Forecasting' by Mark Breen, Kathleen Friestad and Michael Kline. [Richard Louv]