Series of education resources created in collaboration with meteorologist Vinitia Deshmukh, shown opposite a photographic print of the only surviving images of a wire model of the so-called Norwegian Cyclone Model, thought to have been made by scientist Jacob Bjerknes circa 1920. The theory and its ‘ideal cyclone’ remain foundational to modern meteorology, and is why we talk about ‘weather fronts’ – an analogy drawn from WW2 trench warfare.

To read a storm is to map the structure of a cyclone and to understand its excess heat as inseparable from four centuries of extractivism. Guided by scientific models and participants’ experiences of the weather, the workshop explored how we read storms in the sky and in satellite imagery.

Education resources developed in collaboration with meteorologist Vinitia Deshmukh, University of Vienna, for Echo Correspondence and Klima Biennale Wien.