Name _______________________________________        Date _________________

Period _____

 

 

Weather Internet Activity

 

Go to:  www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/Fronts.html

 

1. What type of Front is over New England?  (Name and draw)
1. Name:  ______________________________
2. Draw:  

 

 

2. What type of Front is over Washington State?  (Name and draw)
1. Name:  ______________________________
2. Draw:  

 

 

 

Click on Temperature

 

3. What is the approximate temperature in Southern Florida?

_______________________________________________

 

Click on Humidity

 

4. Where is the humidity the lowest?

______________________________________________

 

Click on Dew Point

 

5. What is the approximate Dew Point for Western California?

______________________________________________

Go to:  http://www.wunderground.com/US/NH/

 

6.      What is the current temperature in Nashua?

a.       __________°C

b.      __________°F

 

7.      What is the current humidity in Nashua?

a.       __________%

 

8.      What are the current conditions in Nashua?

a.       ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                         

 

Go to:  http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/ 

 

Click Storm Encyclopedia               

Find Winter Topics and Choose: Watches and Warnings

 

9. What is the difference between “winter storm watch” and “winter storm warning”?
1. Watch:  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Warning: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Click on Type of Winter Storms

 

10. What is a “blue norther”?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Click on Historical Winter Storms

 

11. Unlike Tropical Systems winter weather storms are not given names.  What do meteorologists to instead to classify them?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Go to:  www.planetdiary.com

 

Click on “Skills and Measurements”

Click on “World POPClock” (under Facts About Earth)

 

8.  Record the time and current world population.  (Record time in both GMT and EST)