1. Predicting Weather
By:
Payton
Cam
Alec
and
Noah.

2. Weather Map Symbols
By Payton
This These symbols
is of the warm This is
what front and cold what a
a fronts tell you warm
cold weather it is front
front going to be a looks
looks little more like.
like. warm or a little
more cold.
This is a
low This is a
pressure high
symbol. pressure
symbol.
The difference between high pressure and low pressure
is high pressure brings in fair weather and low pressure
is in brings rainy weather.
All pictures are from weather wiz kids.

3. Advanced Weather Map Symbols
By Payton
A stationary front is a boundary between two air masses that
more or less doesn’t move, but some stationary fronts can
wobble back and forth for several hundred miles a day. A
stationary front is represented as an alternating warm and cold
A trough on a weather map is an
front symbol.
elongated area of relatively low pressure.
Troughs bring cloudy and rainy weather. A
trough is represented by a hash mark line.
An occluded front is a combination of two fronts that form
when a cold front catches up and overtakes a warm front.
An occluded front is represented as a purple line with teeth
and half circles.
All pictures are from weather wiz kids.

4. Basic Weather Map Reading
By Alec
By the sky cover (circle) in the middle you can tell if it is
overcast ,partly cloudy , or clear .
Surface Station Model from weather WizKids
This graph says the wind is going The barbs on the end of the
north, north, west, and the speed of stick (lollipop) mean how fast
the wind is going about 14 knots. The the wind is going and the
sky cover is clear the dew point is 56 direction it is pointing is the
degrees and the temperature is 56 way the wind is coming from.
degrees and its raining.
web weather for kids
A dew point is the temperature the weather has to drop to before there is dew on the ground.

5. Advanced Weather Map Reading
By Alec
Advanced
Advanced sky weather symbols Advanced
cover symbols knot symbols
All pictures are from
weather map
symbols

6. Telling weather without tools of the trade
By Noah
Before technology, people had to rely on different methods for weather
predicting. Here are a few of the methods.
Red sky at night, sailor’s
delight, red sky at Clouds
morning, sailors take going in two
warning. different directions
means bad
weather.
Wikihow
Wikihow
Easterly winds
mean bad
weather,
Check grass
westerly winds
the opposite. for dew. If it
is dewey, it will
not rain.
Windmill pictures from Holland
Wikihow

7. If a cat
washes A turtle may
behind his/ be in the road
her ears, a or on higher
storm is ground 1-2
coming. days before a
rain.
Snapping turtle facts, information, pictures
About.com: cats
Cows will stay Some people
together before can feel
severe weather humidity in
and lie down the air or
before their hair
thunderstorms. can show it.
Cow pictures
Wikihow

8. How to Tell Weather by Clouds
By Camden
Altocumulus
is another
Cumulonimbus clouds probably
cloud that
means bad means that it’s going to be
weather stormy weather. When there is
within the storms it usually means low
next 36 pressure.
hours
Altocumulus
This is a Cumulus cloud. It Cumulonimbus
mostly means fair weather
which also means high pressure.
Cirrus
Cirrus clouds also
means bad weather
within the next day
or so.
Cumulus
All pictures from Wikihow.