How is Weather Measured and Described?

• In this Unit, you will begin to think about weather more scientifically than you have in the past. To get you started, you will look at different weather maps of the United States. You may have seen these types of maps before. They show a lot of information about the weather. All of the information comes from data that meteorologists collect. The data include such factors as temperature, air pressure, wind speed and direction, and rainfall. Meteorologists organize data in maps and tables to predict what the weather will be. They communicate their predictions to the public.

Weather for Your City

• In this activity you will be observing the weather conditions for a particular city over the course of three days. You will need to go back and forth between weather maps and charts with more specific information about that weather.

Success Criteria

• You will be successful if you can identify some of the ways that meteorologists measure and describe the weather.