Practical Exercises in Elementary MeteorologyWard, Robert DeCourcy
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Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology
Ward, Robert DeCourcy
Meteorology
=Temperature and Wind.=——What relations can you discover between the
direction of the wind and the temperature? Which winds are the coolest?
Which the warmest? Does a hot, calm day seem warmer or cooler than a hot,
windy day? Does a cold, calm day seem colder or warmer than a cold, windy
day? Does the _velocity_ of the wind have any effect on your feeling of
cold or of warmth? If so, what effect?
=Wind and State of Sky.=——Has the direction of the wind anything to do
with the cloudiness? Is there more apt to be considerable cloudiness with
wind from one direction than from another? What winds are usually
accompanied by the largest amount of cloud? What winds usually blow when
the sky is clear? Is the relation of cloudiness to certain wind directions
so close that, if you know the wind direction, you can make a prediction
as to the probable cloudiness? Are the winds with clouds more common in
one month than another? In one season than another? If so, which month?
which season?
=Temperature and State of Sky.=——Do you notice any relation between the
temperature and the state of the sky? In winter are our coldest days
usually cloudy or clear? In summer are our hottest days cloudy or clear?
Are the winds that give us the most cloudiness warm or cold winds in
winter and in summer? Is a cloudy night colder or warmer than a clear
night? Is a cloudy day colder or warmer than a clear day?
=State of Sky and Precipitation.=——How is rainfall or snowfall related to
the cloudiness? Do we ever have rain or snow when the sky is not
completely covered with clouds? Does the sky usually become quickly
covered with clouds before a rain? Does a sky wholly covered with clouds
always give us rain or snow? Does the sky clear rapidly or slowly after a
rain? Are any particular kinds of clouds associated with rain or with
snowstorms? With brief showers? With thunderstorms?
=Wind and Precipitation.=——Are any particular wind directions more likely
than others to give us rain or snow? Are these the same winds as those
which give us the most cloudiness? What winds are they? Has the velocity
of the wind any relation to the rain or snowstorm? Does the wind blow
harder before, during, or after the rain or snow? What changes of wind
direction have you noted before, during, and after any storm? Have you
noticed these same changes in other storms? Are they so common in our
storms that you can make a rule as to these changes?
=Temperature and Precipitation.=——Does a shower or a rainstorm in the
hotter months affect the temperature of the air in any way? How? In the
winter does the temperature show any changes before a snowstorm? Is it
usually warmer or colder then than a day or two before the storm and the
day after? Is it usually uncomfortably cold during a snowstorm? Are rainy
spells in the spring and the autumn months cooler or warmer than clear dry
weather?
PART II.——INSTRUMENTAL OBSERVATIONS.
CHAPTER II.
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