Sec. 3 Predicting

the Weather

meteorologist

•scientist that studies causes of weather

•predict weather by using:

process large amounts of information quickly to

help forecasters

make predictions

•computers

•weather balloons

•weather satellites•Collect data on temp,

humidity, solar radiation, wind speed

•Provide images of clouds

automated weather stations

Reading weather maps

isobars

•lines joining places on weather map w/ same air pressure

isotherms•lines joining places w/ same

temp.

Newspaper Weather Map

Weather Map