Transcript Slide 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?
•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 Troposphere
in order to create a weather
forecast.
•A forecast is a prediction.
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.
What symbol stands for:
Drizzle?
Hail?
Fog?
Snow?
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
Weather Maps
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….
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?
Station Model Practice