Student Research Pages - What Makes Weather? - Wind

What Makes Weather? - WindCover_Weather_Watch

When air pressure and temperatures change...WHOOSH...wind gets created. Then, when wind gets made...WHOOSH...it causes air pressure and temperature to change. Do you see the relationships?

Measuring Wind:

 

We use an "anemometer" (an-eh-mom-eh-tor) to measure how many miles per hour wind blows.

Atmospheric Circulation

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Anenometer

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Anenometer Drawing

Drawing is from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anemometer_(PSF).png and donated by Pearson Scott Foresman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northers ... Special Texas Winds!

Remember a time when the wind suddenly turned really cold?! Wasn’t that weird!?! A norther had arrived! A mass of cold air from the north can drop Texas temperatures lickety split! Brrrrrr!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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