1. Q2 What kinds of information can you get from a weather map?
What kind of weather is associated with a low? Why?
What kind of weather is associated with high? Why?

2. Today’s Objective: I understand the difference between local and global weather patterns.

3. Hurricanes:
Tropical storms affecting the south Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and sometimes east Pacific
June through November
(mostly after August)

4. Weather accompanying hurricanes:
* Heavy rain
* High winds
* Thunderstorms
* Tornadoes

5. Let's see that in real life....

6. Warm water
2. Upward Wind
3. Upper wind blows out
4. Humidity makes clouds
5. Outside winds make it grow

7. Extreme rise in sea level Up to 10 ft increase or more
Storm Surge:
Extreme rise in sea level
Up to 10 ft increase or more
Severe damage to coastal areas

8. strength of a hurricane
Saffir-Simpson Scale:
Measures the
strength of a hurricane

10. So what then is a cyclone? Or a typhoon?
They are all the same!
We just use different names for these storms in different places.
Atlantic and NE Pacific: Hurricane
NW Pacific: Typhoon
Cyclones: South Pacific & Indian Ocean

11. So…Which is worse?????
Tornado or Hurricane???

12. The Child Who Brings the Weather

13. El Nino: global wind caused by warming of Pacific Ocean bringing wet weather to US
Hyperlink map to el nino video

14. El Nino
Global Wind
Pacific near Peru
Large Amounts of warm water
Spreads to United States

16. High pressure over Eastern Pacific
Warm water piles up & prevents cold water from coming up to surface
Low Pressure Area
Inland areas get huge amounts of rain

17. Jet Stream: strong wind in upper atmosphere blowing west to east
Hyperlink globe to video

18. What is a Monsoon?

19. Monsoon:
the rainy phase of a seasonally changing pattern, (although technically there is also a dry phase)
Coastal Areas
Especially India and SE Asia