Sunny, Rainy, Cloudy, Windy, Fog, Snow.
Target Audience:
What kind of acitivies are weather dependent?
Outdoor activities like sports. Examples: Cycling, swimming, sking, canoe, dragonball etc. Pinic, camping, filming, golf etc.
Our researches for the moment:
What is weather? What kind of weather are there?
Weather type 1 - Clouds
There are four basic types of clouds. High clouds, middle clouds, low clouds, and clouds with vertical developement. There are also clouds that don't fall into any of these groups.
Target Audience:
Students, teenagers, family, adults, children, elderly?
Dancer, musician, writer, athlete, gardener, florist, tourist, pilot, fisherman, sailer, painter, consturction worker, housewives, camp instructor, zoo keeper, park ranger, electronic & electrical engineer, grass cutters, event planner?
What kind of acitivies are weather dependent?
Outdoor activities like sports. Examples: Cycling, swimming, sking, canoe, dragonball etc. Pinic, camping, filming, golf etc.
Our researches for the moment:
What is weather? What kind of weather are there?
Weather is the day-to-day conditions of a particular place. It is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
Weather type 1 - Clouds
There are four basic types of clouds. High clouds, middle clouds, low clouds, and clouds with vertical developement. There are also clouds that don't fall into any of these groups.
Weather type 3 - Fog
Fog is a stratus cloud on the ground. There are several types of fog. Advection fog is produced by a hortizontal motion of warm moist air over colder ground. An example of this would be a warm front moving across land with a recent snow or cold weather. Radiation fog is produced as heat from the earth surface is radiated back to space at night. A moist layer and nearly calm winds need to be present.
Weather type 4 - Freezing Rain
Freezing rain - known as "ice" occurs when a thin layer of freezing or below freezing air exists near the earth's surface. Typically this occurs when snow falls into warmer air changing the precipitation into rain.
Weather type 5 - Lightning
Lightning is simply a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere.
Rain is precipitation in liquid form. Liquid precipitation can occur as mist, drizzle, or rain. Droplet size differentiates the type that it is classified. Mist is generally 50-500 microns in size. Drizzle is .5 to 2 millimeters in size and rain is 2 millimeters to 1 centimenter in size. Rain is formed when condensation of water vapor occurs condenses into water droplets.
Weather type 7 - Sleet
Sleet is transparent frozen raindrops. Sleet or ice pellets are created when snow falls into air above freezing and melts into rain drops. If another below freezing layer below the warm air is of sufficient depth, the rain drops freeze into balls of ice or ice pellets.
Weather type 8 - Snow
Snow is the accumulation of crystal snowflakes. Snowflakes are made as water ice crystalizes. The crystals may form in many different shapes dictated by the water content and temperature in the cloud as the snowflakes are forming.
Snow is the accumulation of crystal snowflakes. Snowflakes are made as water ice crystalizes. The crystals may form in many different shapes dictated by the water content and temperature in the cloud as the snowflakes are forming.
Weather type 9 - Sunny
Sunny weather or clear skies is defined as less than 1/8 sky cloud cover. Mostly sunny skies is characterized by 1/8 - 2/8 sky cloud cover. Sunny skies many times are observed when a high pressure area is dominating the weather pattern. High pressure signifies a region of sinking air which tends to dry out the atmosphere resulting in less mositure to form clouds.
Weather type 10 - Thunderstorm
Weather type 11 - Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air usually produced by severe thunderstorms.
Weather type 12 - Wind
Why is weather important to us?
The weather is all around us, all the time. It is an important part of our lives and one that we cannot control. Instead the weather often controls how and where we live, what we do, what we wear and what we eat. Someone who studies the weather is called a meteorologist. Weather predictions are made by forecasters who you see on television.
The weather is all around us, all the time. It is an important part of our lives and one that we cannot control. Instead the weather often controls how and where we live, what we do, what we wear and what we eat. Someone who studies the weather is called a meteorologist. Weather predictions are made by forecasters who you see on television.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/whatis.html
Things to do:
Find out more about our local weathers like, sunny/rainy/cloudy. Together with what we can develop from there. Let's go! More researches to do!!!!!!!!!
