100% chance of weather exhibits

Here's something to add to your agenda the next time you're museum-hopping: the John C. Freeman Weather Museum, which opens today in the Museum District. Finally, a museum about something that interests everyone in Houston! We expect the crowds to be enormous.

Freeman was a world-renowned meteorologist who died in 2004. He came up with the idea of a museum dedicated to the weather and collected old forecasting equipment that's now on display at the museum. Jill Hasling, Freeman's daughter and the museum's executive director, said she believes the weather museum is the first of its kind and it should have wide appeal: "I think everyone is acutely aware of the weather, especially down here on the Gulf Coast ... everyone understands the weather and we want to tell them how they can save their lives and property."

Exhibits at the Freeman Museum include an indoor tornado, a look at what the storm surge from a Category 5 hurricane would do to the Houston area, the collection of antique forecasting equipment and a chance to do your own weather forecast standing in front of a blue screen (which Houstonist fully intends to do, by the way).

John C. Freeman Weather Museum
5104 Caroline St.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday
admission: $5 ($3 students/seniors)
713.529.3076