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Weather and Climate

Weather and Climate. By: Brianna Shields November 15, 2005. DO NOW. Listen to this podcast:. What is the difference between weather and climate?. Look back through your weather journal for the daily weather in Jamestown. Answer the following questions in your notebook:

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Weather and Climate

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  1. Weather and Climate By: Brianna Shields November 15, 2005

  2. DO NOW • Listen to this podcast:

  3. What is the difference between weather and climate? Look back through your weather journal for the daily weather in Jamestown. Answer the following questions in your notebook: Did the weather report change every day? Which day had the most precipitation? Least? Which day had the highest temperature? Least Weather vs. Climate

  4. Comparing weather and climate reports: What is the climate like in Jamestown NY? Record this in your notebook http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/grid.pl?gr=N42W078 http://nysc.eas.cornell.edu/buffalo_c20.html http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/USclimate/city.pl?state=NY&lane=fast&itypea=1&loc.x=157&loc.y=195&.cgifields=itypea http://www.weather.com/activities/other/other/weather/climo-monthly-graph.html?locid=14701&from=36hr_bottomnav_undeclared Weather vs. Climate

  5. Climate vs. Weather WEATHER: The state of the atmosphere at a given time in a particular place CLIMATE: Weather averaged over a long period of time (focus on temperature and precipitation) Weather vs. Climate

  6. World Climate Set up a color key on the bottom of a blank world map Color each of the climate regions a different color http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/interactive_climate_map/climate_map.html http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/climatezones.html http://go-passport.grolier.com/atlas?id=mtlr081 Weather vs. Climate

  7. Comparing weather and climate in inland and coastal cities of Peru Look at this map of Peru. Predict which cities would have the highest and lowest temperatures. Rank the cities according to their predicted temperatures: http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/peru.htm Weather vs. Climate

  8. Comparing weather and climate in inland and coastal cities of Peru Record the actual temperatures for each city in Peru, into your data table, the answer the questions below in your notebook: http://www.weather.com/common/drilldown/PE.html Do you notice any trends? What cities tend to have warmer temps? Colder temps? Describe what you see. What is the average temp for the inland cities? Coastal cities Why do you think one was on average warmer or colder than the other? Based on your observations, do you think soil or water will heat up faster? Why? Weather vs. Climate

  9. In your notebook: Describe why coastal cities have milder temperatures and climate than inland cities. Weather vs. Climate

  10. Weather Journal • Get out your weather logging journal • One student, will go to the library and get the weather conditions from the Weather Station. • Fill this in on page 5 of your journal under the Jamestown, NY “Library Station” weather section

  11. Weather Journal • Look in the Post Journal for Jamestown’s weather forecast. • Fill the weather conditions into your weather logging journal on page 5.

  12. Weather Journal • Visit the weather underground site and fill in the weather forecast for Jamestown, NY. • This goes on page 5 of our weather journal. • To find the weather forecast, type the city and state name in the top left corner of the screen

  13. Weather Journal • Visit the weather underground site again and enter the weather conditions for each of these cities: • Montgomery, Alabama • Wichita, Kansas • This goes on page 11 of your weather journal.

  14. Weather Journal • Visit the CNN weather maps and try to make predictions about tomorrow’s weather in the following cities: • Jamestown, New York • Montogomery, Alabama • Wichita, Kansas • This goes on page 14 of your weather journal, under DAY FIVE. • If you don’t know where in the U.S. each state is located, use a U.S. Map to find each one.

  15. Weather Journal • Visit the webcams for each of the cities listed below. Try to guess what the temperature, sky conditions, windspeed, time of day, precipitation and visibility are for each city by observing the webcam. • Moscow, Russia • Russia 2 • Buenos Aires, Argentina • New York City, New York • Your predictions go on page 19 of your weather journal, under WEBCAM WEATHER.

  16. Weather Journal • Visit the links below to determine the actual weather conditions in the webcam cities • Moscow, Russia • New York City, New York • Buenos Aires, Argentina • Record the actual weather conditions on page 19 of your weather journal, under ACTUAL WEATHER.

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