WEATHER WHEEL
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This hands on activity could help your students easily remember and learn the weather.
RAINY - Rain is able to form when air that is full of water vapor becomes so saturated that the water droplets within clouds careen together to form larger and heavier droplets that eventually cannot defy gravity any longer and fall to the ground.
SNOWY - Snow may form as water vapor changes to ice high up within the cloud in the atmosphere. This occurs when the temperature is below 32 degrees F. Snow falls as 6-sided snowflakes composed of ice crystals that develop around minute particles of dust and dirt carried into the air by the wind; once they grow large enough, gravity brings them down to the ground.
WINDY - Wind is air in motion int he atmosphere. Windy weather is caused by imbalance of heating in the atmosphere. It can be caused from an imbalance from solar heating or a difference over a boundary such as a front.
SUNNY - Sunny weather or clear skies is defined as less than 1/8 sky cloud cover. Mostly sunny skies is characterized by 1/8-2/8 sky cloud cover. Sunny skies many times are observed when a high pressure area is dominating the weather pattern. High pressure signifies a region of sinking air which tends to dry out the atmosphere resulting in less moisture to form clouds.
FOGGY - Fog is the stratus cloud in the ground.
CLOUDY - Clouds are visible water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere. They are created as water vapor reaches saturation and condenses.
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