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Essential Question: How can meteorologists use data to create a weather forecast?

Essential Question: How can meteorologists use data to create a weather forecast? Initial Activity: What tools do we use to predict the weather? What tools or terms do we use to describe the weather?. Meteorologists use the information provided by weather instruments to make weather maps.

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Essential Question: How can meteorologists use data to create a weather forecast?

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  1. Essential Question: How can meteorologists use data to create a weather forecast? Initial Activity: What tools do we use to predict the weather? What tools or terms do we use to describe the weather?

  2. Meteorologists use the information provided by weather instruments to make weather maps. • A meteorologist is a person who studies weather. • Meteorologists gather information from the Earth’s surface and the Tropospherein order to create a weather forecast. • A forecast is a prediction.

  3. Station models: show the weather at a specific location on the Earth’s surface. The Parts of a Station Model. Yes, Please copy the station model and what the symbols stand for.

  4. What symbol stands for: Drizzle? Hail? Fog? Snow?

  5. ISOLINES • Lines that connect points of equal temperature are called isotherms • Lines that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure are called isobar • Isobars that are close together (large pressure distance over an area) strong wind • Isobars that are spaced far apart (small pressure difference over an area) calm winds

  6. Weather Maps

  7. Exit Slip 6-1 (Use 1 or 2 of the following) • Today I learned…. • My biggest success today was….. • A question I still have about the lesson is… • I got confused when….

  8. Self Check Pg 208 In Textbook • 1. List 3 instruments used to collect weather data. • 2. Describe 6 items of data that might be recorded in a station model. • 3. Explain how the National Weather Service makes weather maps. • 4. Explain what closely spaced isobars on a weather map indicate. • 5. In the morning you hear a forecast for the day to be sunny and warm but when you are leaving school it has started to rain. Why is the weather so hard to predict?

  9. Station Model Practice

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