Forecasting Student Activity Book
Website we are using, which you can also find on schoolnotes.com as a link:
http://www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/info_forecasting2.html
A. Weather Symbols
- Click on the symbols site where you see “Click here to go to the SYMBOLS site.”
- Read the “Weather Symbols” chart and fill in the following common symbols:
Common Weather Symbols Chart
Light
Moderate
Heavy
Rain
Snow
Thunderstorm
Lightening
No
symbol
for this.
Just draw the one
symbol for lightening.
- Click " Back button/arrow " to return to the Forecasting "Get Info.1" web page.
B. Cloud Cover Symbols
- Click here to go to the PROJECT CLOUD COVER site at UIUC WW2010.
- Read the information and answer the following questions.
1. How would you show clear skies?
2. How would you show the skies were about 25% cloudy?
The white part is the part you should draw in the circle.
3. How would you show the skies were about 50% cloudy?
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Click "Back button/arrow" to return to the Forecasting "Get Info.1" web page.
C. Storm Structure
- Click here to go to the PROJECT WIND SPEED SYMBOLS site at UIUC WW2010.
1. What does a “wind barb” indicate? Draw an example wind barb.
2. How do you show the direction that the wind is blowing from?
3. What does a short barb indicate? long barb?
4. Draw the symbols that would describe a wind showing that a southerly wind is blowing
about 15 knots with clear skies.
5. Draw a wind barb showing a northwesterly wind blowing at 20 knots with 25% cloud
cover.
- Click "Back button/arrow" to return to the Forecasting "Get Info.1" web page.
- Click
at the bottom of the screen.
D. Isobars
- Click on the "Click here to go to the PROJECT ISOBARS site at UIUC WW2010." site.
1. What are isobars?
2. What is the pressure of the blue isobar located between 1012 and 1020?
3. How can we use isobars to show us the direction of the wind? Think about what pressure
has to do with how wind moves. The answer is NOT on the website but in your head!
- Click "Back button/arrow" to return to the Forecasting "Get Info.2" web page.
E. Weather Maps
- Click here to go to the WEATHER MAPS.
- Read Section B and answer the following question.
1. How do weather maps help meteorologists?
- Click "Back button/arrow" to return to the Forecasting "Get Info.2" web page.
F. Weather Systems
- Click here to go to the WEATHER SYSTEMS site.
- Read Sections A and B.
1. What causes weather systems?
2. What type of weather do high pressure systems cause?
3. What types of pressure (high or low) would you expect to be in during a thunderstorm?
4. How do weather systems move across the United States?
- Click "Back button/arrow" to return to the Forecasting "Get Info.2" web page.
- Click on the
- Click "Gather Data".
at the bottom of the page.
A. Current Atmospheric Pressure at Sea Level
- Click here to go to the WEATHER GRAPHICS site at UIUC WW2010.
- Find and click on "Sea Level Pressure – Isobars."
1. What is the pressure where you live? Today's pressure is _____________ millibars.
2. Name one state with the highest pressure on the map.
3. Name one state with the lowest pressure on the map.
- Close the "Isobars" map
- Find and click on "Surface Temperature – Temperature Contours" map.
B. Current Temperature at Sea Level
1. Name one state with the coldest temperature on the map.
2. Name one state with the hottest temperature on the map.
- Close the "Surface Temperature – Temperature Contours" map.
- Click "Back button/arrow" to return to the Forecasting "Gather Data.1" web page.
- Click on the
button at the bottom of the page.
- Click on the
AGAIN.
D. Rainfall
- Click here to go to the DAILY WEATHER MAP-RAINFALL site.
- Click on this picture
- Scroll down until you find the “24 hour precipitation” map.
1. How much rainfall have we had in the last 24 hours?
2. Look at the pressure map AND the rainfall map. What is the relationship between the
areas where it is raining and the pressure in those areas?
Close the internet and shut down your computer.
Return your laptop to the cart.
Work on your weather worksheets.
Keep this packet and we’ll check the answers
tomorrow.