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This
section has two pages. Click on the pdf icon at left if you do not have
an activity sheet for this section.
A - Weather Symbols
Click
here to go to the SYMBOLS
site.
- Read the chart and fill in the symbols in your activity book.
B - Cloud Cover Symbols
Click
here to go to the PROJECT
CLOUD COVER site at UIUC WW2010.
- How would you show the skies were about 50% cloudy?
C - Storm Structure
Click
here to go to the PROJECT
WIND SPEED SYMBOLS site at UIUC WW2010.
- Read pages 1 through 3.
- How do you show the direction that the wind is blowing from?
- What is the relationship between the length of the lines on the wind barb and the speed that the lines indicate?
- Write a sentence describing a wind barb showing that a southerly wind is blowing about 15 knots with clear skies.
- Draw a wind barb showing a northwesterly wind blowing at 20 knots with 25% cloud cover.
- Convert 20 knots to miles per hour.
- Draw a wind barb showing 86 mile per hour southwesterly wind and overcast skies. (First, convert miles per hour to knots.)
