Weather

• • Weather satellites scan the earth’s atmosphere
  • Data is measured by Met Éireann to create weather maps & predictions
  • Forecast is then broadcast by meteorologists
• Rain gauge - precipitation mm
• Wind vane - direction wind is going
• Anemometer - wind speed km/h

  
• Barometer - clock (millibars - atmospheric pressure - weight of atmosphere pushing down on the earth
• Hygrometer-humidity - %

  
• Campbell stokes recorder - hrs per day

  
• Air Mass

  • Large moving pockets of air.
  • Fronts occur where 2 different air masses meet

  
• Cirrus Clouds

  
• Cumulus clouds

  
• Stratus clouds

  
• H on a weather map - high atomospheric pressure, L is the opposite
• High and low pressure

  
• depression is a low-pressure system bringing clouds, rain, and wind
• Anticyclone is high atmospheric pressure with clear skies and little or no precipitation.