Week 1
Lesson 1
Energy, Temperature, and Heat
Understanding kinetic energy, temperature, scales, specific heat, diurnal curves, and forecasting temperature.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Humidity and Atmospheric Moisture Movement
Looking into the water cycle, the three states of water, saturation and evaporation, absolute humidity, specific humidity, mixing ratio, vapor pressure, and relative humidity.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Formation of Fog
Understanding the formation process of fog, condensation nuclei, radiation fog, advection fog, upslope fog, and frontal fog, with real-life examples.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Clouds Types
The naming and classification of different clouds, cloud levels, and impacts of clouds in aviation and everyday life.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Atmospheric Stability
Understanding the concepts of equilibrium, parcel movement, dry and moist adiabatic rates, upper-air soundings, inversions, and airmass stability.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Precipitation Process
Learning about how droplets grow through condensation, collision and coalenscence process, ice-crystal Bergeron process, accreation, and different types of precipitation. 
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Atmospheric Pressure
Introdiction to diurnal pressure changes, barometers, pressure scales, altimeter, station pressure, sea level pressure, isobars, movement of ridges and troughs.  
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Surface Winds
Understanding pressure gradient force, coriolis force, geostrophic winds, centripetal and centrifigal force, friction, and different size scales of wind.
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Jet Streams
Learn the different jet streams, polar jet, subtropical jet, arctic jet, low-level jet, global upper-level winds, and transporting of cold air and warm air advection.
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Airmasses and Fronts
Understand airmasses, source regions, airmass characeristics, surface fronts to include cold, warm, occluded, and stationary.
 Week 11
Lesson 11
Mid-latitude Cyclones
Learn about extratropical cyclones, Norwegian Cyclone model, frontal waves, lee-side lows, Noreasters, Hatteras Lows, Alberta Lows, Colorado and Texas Lows.
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Vertical Structures and Upper-Level Flow
Look into upper-level patterns, self-development process, vertical stacking of highs and lows, longwave patterns, baroclinic and barotropic lows.
 Week 13
Lesson 13
Forecasting Tools
This is a look into the different weather tools one can use to help forecast the weather. Different products will be looked at such as Windy.com, Weathertap, Pivatol, NWS products, aviation products, radar, satellite, Metars, Pireps, and more.
 Week 14
Lesson 14
Thunderstorms
Delve into the concepts of thunderstorms, airmass, complex multi-celluar, supercells, shelf clouds, bow echos, micro-burst, derecho, MCC, and other concepts surrounding thunderstorms.
 Week 15
Lesson 15
Tornadoes
Understand the complexities of tornadic development, shear, tornado alley, tornado damage, enhanced Fujita scale, supper cell formation, forecasting tornadoes.
 Week 16
Lesson 16
Tropical Storms Part One
Learn about tropical locations, streamlines, tropical wave development, NETWC/ITCZ, Easterly waves, anatomy of a hurricane, favorable genesis conditions for hurricanes.
 Week 17
Lesson 17
Tropical Storms Part Two
Learn about hurricane movment, hurricane climatology, naming of storms, storm surge, notable historic hurricanes.