Atmosphere
Orlando Teen Sends Message To World Leaders
Reported by Central Florida News 13:
Reported by Janelle Jordan
ORLANDO — An Orange County eighth-grader is getting international attention.
Kira Myers, 13, of Windy Ridge School, produced a minute-long video that will be shown to 192 world leaders during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
“I really feel like I’m making a difference, because if [...]
El Nino’s Effect On Florida
So we just finished our El Nino project and what do I see on the front page of the Orlando Sentinel Tuesday morning?
Click the image to read the article.
Speaking of El Nino projects, I’m still working on grading all of them; please be patient. I should have all the grades done by Monday. I look through them [...]
Chapter Challenge
Chapter Challenges are an important component of your studies in Earth Science. These long term projects establish your team as researchers or investigators and set you off on a mission to help solve a problem in your community.
Your first Chapter Challenge is this:
Leaders in your community want to know if an El Nino event could [...]
Waves From Bill
I was sitting at the table Saturday morning having breakfast with my wife, in the background the weather channel was talking about the waves that we could expect from hurricane Bill, then close to 1,000 miles away off the coast of Virginia. Hard to imagine that something that far away could have a significant affect [...]
What will the weather be like?
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
94° F | 70° F
90° F | 67° F
88° F | 67° F
88° F | 68° F
Chance of T-storms
20% chance of precipitation
Chance of T-storms
30% chance of precipitation
Chance of T-storms
20% chance of precipitation
Chance of T-storms
20% chance of precipitation
Hourly
Hourly
Hourly
Hourly
Tomorrow is forecast to be Cooler than today.
How do they predict the weather? How do they know tomorrow will [...]
El Nino
Here is some excellent information on El Nino. Click on the image below.
I decided to do a quick recap of our discussions about El Nino (actually this includes today and tomorrow). This might help with your notes.
Ocean circulation and how it changes during El Nino.
Factors that influence currents: winds, land masses, Coriolis effect
Normal non-El Nino [...]
I wonder …
“I wonder …..” you fill in the rest.
That’s the theme for science this year. Somehow I hope to rekindle the child-like wonder and amazement at the world which surrounds us. Throughout the year I’ll encourage you to wonder — “I wonder why this happens” “I wonder how this works” “I wonder what would happen if”. [...]
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