Climate

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Climate

• By
• Brianna Shields
• November 21, 2005

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DO NOW

• Complete page 6 in your weather journal. Use the
  internet from the screen and the Post Journal off
  the front counter

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Weather in Inland vs. Coastal Areas

• Use your Peru Weather Table to answer the
  following questions in your notebook
• 1. Do you notice any trends (patterns) on this
  table?
• 2. What cities tend to have warmer temps?
  Colder temps?
• 3. What is the average temp for the inland
  cities? Coastal cities? Use a calculator
• 4. Why do you think one was warmer or colder
  than the other?

• Inland vs. Coastal Cities

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Weather in Inland vs. Coastal Areas

• Write the following in your notebook
• Coastal cities have milder temperatures than
  inland cities because the ocean takes longer to
  heat up and longer to release the heat.
• Soil heats and cools much faster
• Seasons at the coast tend to be milder (warmer
  winters and cooler summers than inland)

• Inland vs. Coastal Cities

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Weather in Inland vs. Coastal Areas

• Look at this map of Peru. Which of these two
  cities would have a more moderate (mild)
  temperature
• HUACHO
• Latitude 11.1 S
• Elevation 67 m
• Location Coast
• ESPERANZA
• Latitude 9.8 S
• Elevation 253 m
• Location Inland

• Inland vs. Coastal Cities

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Weather in Ecuador

• Look at this map of Ecuador. Predict which
  cities will have the highest and lowest
  temperatures by looking at their elevations and
  latitudes.
• ECUADOR MAP
• ACTUAL TEMPERATURES IN ECUADOR
• Quito
• Cotopaxi
• Latacunga
• Ibarra
• Esmeraldas
• Guayaquil

• Weather in Ecuador

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Weather in Ecuador

• Answer the following questions in your notebook
• 1. How does elevation affect temperature?
• 2. Can you rely on one days worth of data to
  determine a general trend between temperature and
  elevation?
• 3. In the troposphere, the lowest or inner most
  layer of earths atmosphere, both air pressure
  and the density of air decrease as elevation
  increases. How and why do you think this affects
  the change in air temperature as elevation
  increases?

• Weather in Ecuador

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Comparing Weather in U.S. Cities

• 1. Compare the temperature in each city. What
  was the average for each one?
• 2. Compare the wind direction in each city. Did
  the wind generally come from one direction?
• 3. Did one city have more sunny or rainy days
  than others?
• 4. Which location experienced the most
  precipitation overall?
• 5. How would you describe the air pressure
  changes in each of the three cities?
• 6. Was there any relationship between air
  pressure and the sky conditions the following day
  in any of the three cities?

• Weather in U.S. cities
• Compare our weather recordings from Jamestown,
  Wichita and Montgomery. Answer the following
  questions in your notebook

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Comparing Weather in U.S. Cities

• 1. Latitude- directness of the suns rays
• 2. Elevation- relates to air pressure
• 3. Wind patterns (normal air masses brought in)
• 4. Local geography Inland or coastal (presence
  or absence of water)

• Factors Affecting Climate
• In your notebook, create a list of factors that
  can affect climate and explain the specific role
  that each factor plays in determining the climate
  of a geographical region (how does each affect
  the climate of an area)

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Weather Journal

• Get out your weather logging journal
• One student, will go to the library and get the
  weather conditions from the Weather Station.
• Fill this in on page 6 of your journal under the
  Jamestown, NY Library Station weather section

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Weather Journal

• Look in the Post Journal for Jamestowns weather
  forecast.
• Fill the weather conditions into your weather
  logging journal on page 6.

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Weather Journal

• Visit the weather underground site and fill in
  the weather forecast for Jamestown, NY.
• This goes on page 6 of our weather journal.
• To find the weather forecast, type the city and
  state name in the top left corner of the screen

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Weather Journal

• Visit the weather underground site again and
  enter the weather conditions for each of these
  cities
• Montgomery, Alabama
• Wichita, Kansas
• This goes on page 12 of your weather journal.

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Weather Journal

• Visit the CNN weather maps and try to make
  predictions about tomorrows weather in the
  following cities
• Jamestown, New York
• Montogomery, Alabama
• Wichita, Kansas
• This goes on page 15 of your weather journal,
  under DAY Six.
• If you dont know where in the U.S. each state is
  located, use a U.S. Map to find each one.

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Weather Journal

• Visit the webcams for each of the cities listed
  below. Try to guess what the temperature, sky
  conditions, windspeed, time of day, precipitation
  and visibility are for each city by observing the
  webcam.
• Moscow, Russia
• Russia 2
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• New York City, New York
• Your predictions go on page 20 of your weather
  journal, under WEBCAM WEATHER.

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Weather Journal

• Visit the links below to determine the actual
  weather conditions in the webcam cities
• Moscow, Russia
• New York City, New York
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Record the actual weather conditions on page 20
  of your weather journal, under ACTUAL WEATHER.

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Assessment Reading Weather Maps

• Use the weather map to answer the questions
• This is due next class