A Day in the life of a Meteorologist

http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/528041/day-in-the-life-of-a-meteorologist

Watch this video on Abc's Splash website about a day in the life of a meteorologist, and answer some of the questions in a comment on this post.


Before viewing

What does a meteorologist do?

What information do we get from a meteorologist? How is this information communicated to the public, and why is it important to us?


As you view

Weather man Mark Wilgar explains the priority in the first hour-and-a-half of his day. What is this priority and what else happens during this time?

Mark describes his responsibilities as having two parts (components). In the surface component, what types of data are collected? To gather data from the upper atmosphere, what equipment is used? Who uses this information?


After viewing

Weather information is valuable to many members of the community. Who relies on weather forecasts and what types of decisions depend on knowledge about the weather?

Find out more about weather scientists and other weather-related careers. Would you like to work in this field?


Next steps

Explore the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) website. Observe the radar images of your region within Australia and then identify the current weather observations there.

Notice that there are also weather warnings on the BOM website. What kinds of severe natural events can you find out about?

The Year 5 Cloud Detectives

Cloud Detectives

By Natalie, Clara and Emily N

For science, Year 5 have been learning about weather. Miss Lee started out with twitter and tweeted out a tweet asking for pictures of clouds from around the world. 

We got lots of replies and photos from people all over the world. Then, Miss Lee split us into ten groups for the ten different cloud types. We had to make a poster for  the cloud type we were given using Google Drawing. There are ten cloud types:

Stratus

Cumulonimbus

Cirrus

Altostratus

Stratocumulus

Cirrostratus

Altocumulus

Cumulus

Nimbostratus

Cirrocumulus

Also, for homework we were asked to take pictures of different clouds and send them to Miss Lee.  Our class created a presentation which contains the cloud images from our homework and from twitter. The presentation includes the posters that we have created. We were also asked to classify the clouds that were on the presentation. On Monday, we created a map where the cloud photos came from.

Thank you to every one who tweeted, emailed or sent Miss Lee and our class a photo! We really enjoyed using all of the beautiful cloud photos.

Our Presentation

(Click Here)

Our Google map:

(Click here)

What did you learn from this activity?  

Which cloud type is your favourite?

Clouds

Clouds

In science we are learning about weather.  The Met Office in the UK has a great poster explaining clouds.   Click here to read their poster and comment below with a fact you learned about clouds.

From: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/7/k/12_0265_Education_cloud_poster.pdf