Backyard Entrepreneur^TM

Mini Meteorologist

  Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

  

Make money working from home selling weather related products like photographs, crafts, windsocks, and almanacs.

When you stay inside playing video games and watching TV, you can't possibly know what's going on outside in the world around you.  Get out of your house into your big yard and watch the skies.  Learn the names of all the clouds, learn how weather develops. 

Use your knowledge of weather to help others in your neck of the woods.  If you live in a danger zone that is well know for its dangerous weather patterns, become the neighbor who is always prepared. You could even publish your own emergency preparation guidebook. Include a handy checklist of items to have on hand. This list will be different for everyone depending on where you live.  Some areas have flooding to deal with, or extreme cold, or tornados and hurricanes. See our page, Emergency Planner, for more ideas.

Sell Photographs 

Take interesting photographs to sell.  See our page, Nature Photographer, for more ideas. 

Set up Weather Stations

Practice giving weather reports.  Set up a weather station and see if you can predict the weather for the next week.  Learn the weather patterns in your neck of the woods and elsewhere.  Become an expert. 

Design rooms with weather themes and set up weather stations in them.

Make Windsocks

Stitch windsocks for sale.   The sky is the limit.  Make weather socks or all kinds of decorative ones for all seasons.

Publish your Own Neighborhood Farmer's Almanac

 

Create your very own Farmer’s Almanac for your neighborhood and then expand.  Put your neighborhood name on it as in Sunshine Hills Almanac.  Use a real Farmer’s Almanac as your guide.  Add your own crazy personal touches just for your neck of the woods.  Get little sayings, recipes, and stories from your neighbors.  One can imagine a big difference in the neighborhood culture recorded for a neighborhood in very cold Alaska than that of a neighborhood of Vermont or South Texas.  It would be fun to compare the difference.

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Here are some resources to help you get started.

Links 

Books

Careeers

in meteorology

Decorations 

Equipment

How To

Make an anemometer

Magazine

Resources and Information

Lots of info:  American Meteorological Society

Stay up to date:  NOAA National Weather Service

Great reading material:  National Weather Association

In depth research:  The National Center for Atmospheric Research

Go Global:  World Meteorological Organization

Set up your own weather station: American Museum of Natural History