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Meteorology

Weather Information

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Who collects weather information? The National Weather Service (NWS)
From where does the National Weather Service collect its information about the weather? The National Weather Service gets its weather information from the entire U.S. country.
How accurate (correct) are the weather forecasts from the National Weather Service? The weather forecasts from the National Weather Service are about 80% accurate.
What does NWS stand for? National Weather Service
What 5 things allow the NWS to be accurate? 1. Information gathered about conditions in the atmosphere. 2.Report info to central (one) location 3.Central location analyzes info 4.NWS makes a forecast 5.Distributes (sends) data back to entire U.S. country
Where is the data for weather conditions gathered? * All over the United States, there are thousands of little substations that report to hundreds of big stations close by. * Those big stations then send the data to the NWS.
What information is gathered by the Stations and Substations? * Temperature, * Pressure, * Humidity, * Wind speed and direction, * Precipitation
Who invented the thermometer? Galileo in the year 1592
What was the first thermometer called? The first thermometer was called a Thermoscope.
What was the first thermometer made of? Glass bulb with a long neck inverted with water inside a containter.
What do thermometers of today have inside? Todays (Modern) thermometers are filled with mercury instead of water.
Who introduced the Fahrenheit Scale? Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the year 1714
How is the Fahrenheit scale set up numerically? * 0 degrees F is the point or temperature at which salt water freezes. * 100 degrees F was considered the human body temperature.
What does degrees F mean? Any number with degrees F means that is the temperature in Fahrenheit.
What is a Fiducial point? A Fiducial point is where water changes states
What are the Fiducial Points in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) The Fiducial point in Fahrenheit are: * 32°F * 212°F
Who invented the Celsius temperature scale? The Celsius temperature scale was developed by Anders Celsius and Carolus Linnaeus.
What are the Fiducial points in degrees Celsius (°C)? * 0°C * 100°C
How do you convert or change from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit (°C to °F)? °C = (°F - 32) / 1.8
Which temperature scale is used in Science? The Celsius (°C) temperature scale is used mostly by modern scientist.
What temperature scale is part of the Metric System? The Celsius (°C) temperature scale is part of the Metric system.
What instrument measures atmospheric pressure? The Barometer
What types of thermometers do Weather stations use? Weather stations use maximum/minimum Bourdon tube thermometers
What is inside a maximum thermometer? Mercury is inside a maximum thermometer
What is inside a minimum thermometer? Alcohol is inside a minimum thermometer
What is a Bourdon tube thermometer? It is has a bulb on one end with a long arm connected to a dial inside and is used to produce a graph (Themograph)
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