Summer Severe Weather Geoff Coulson Warning Preparedness Meteorologist Environment Canada Sept 11 2009 ICLR Friday Forum 1 Contents • • • • Ontario Storm Prediction Centre Forecasting Technology Watch/Warning Program A closer look at August 20th tornado outbreak 2 Ontario Storm Prediction Centre Toronto 3 Radar data… 4 Weather Technology 5 Satellite Data… 6 Computer Models… 7 Forecast Area of Responsibility 8 Scale of a Summer Storm 9
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Weather Fronts: Understanding the Movement of Air Lesson Plan on types of weather fronts with various conceptual demonstrations By: Craig O’Connell and Jack Hord A. State Standards Addressed a. Standard 6.1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of technological design and scientific inquiry‚ including process skills‚ mathematical thinking‚ controlled investigative design and analysis‚ and problem solving. i. Indicator 6-1.1: Use appropriate tools and instruments
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Air Masses There are many components when it comes to understanding different types of weather systems. When it comes to weather‚ many vital parts such as air masses are very important to understand. One might ask‚ what is an air mass? An air mass is a large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture properties (ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu). When there are similar characteristics and temperature and humidity within an air mass this is called its source region. The source region is
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There is one thing in the world‚ which people are ready to discuss with everyone‚ everywhere and any time. It is the weather. In my composition I am going to speculate about the significance of the weather concept and compare it in Great Britain and in Russia. British people obsessed with the weather. It is a part and a parcel of their life. I suppose that the strongest reason for it is the weather’s uncertainty. «Life at the edge of an ocean and the edge of a continent means you can never
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Explain the causes of one type of extreme weather. Temperate storm Boscastle flood 2004 A Temperate storm are storms of different types and occurs in the area of 30 to 60 degrees latitude with High Wind speed (39-55 mph + or 63–90 km/h). In 2004 various factors lead to the flooding of Boscastle. Boscastle is a rural village located on the North coast of Cornwall‚ in the South West of England. There are various physical factors which contributed to the flooding of Boscastle. Firstly‚ the storm which
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(2008). Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground at Forty . Retrieved 10 16‚ 2013‚ from George Mason Univeristy History New Network : http://hnn.us/article/93754 Gillies‚ K. (1998‚ 11). The Last Radical. (A. Pilon‚ Ed.) Vancouver Magazine . Lozano‚ C. (Producer)‚ & Green‚ B. S. (Director). (2003). The Weather Underground [Motion Picture]. Gussow‚ M. (2003‚ 3 5). The House On West 11th Street . The New York Times ‚ p. 3. Maryland‚ U. o. (2010-2013). Weather Underground Organization (WUO) / Weathermen
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change is the alteration of weather and climate attributes orvariables and it is a result of an interplay of factors Climate ranging from natural phenomenon to human factors [Zhakata and Makarau 1995] .Major components of the climate system include ‚temperature ‚ precipitation‚humidity‚ pressure and others . According to Waugh [2000] climate refers to the longterm atmospheric behaviour while weather refers to the state of the atmosphere at a local level and on a short term
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SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY FOR WEATHER FORECASTING Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location and over the years many techniques have been used to forecast the weather‚ Satellite technology is one of it. The history of weather forecasting and early satellite programmes was told using archive film‚ highlighting the difficulties associated with a lack of weather data. Two hundred dedicated weather satellites have been
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Geo-Engineering: Controlling the Climate and Weather Recall the pleasure derived from the last time you took a walk through a park on a day when the weather was perfect. The sunshine was bright‚ the temperature was perfect‚ and perhaps there was a slight breeze that left you the ultimate feeling of refreshment as it caressed your face. Or perhaps you can remember the last time you enjoyed the sounds and smells of a light April shower that left the trees and grass looking so green and the air
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Do readers believe that any one person can turn their life into something beautiful‚ even when all they have seen in their life is ugly? Based on this non-fiction poem the narrator finally realized his life wasn’t as bad as it could be. In Baca’s “Cloudy day‚” readers find a speaker very attuned to the outer world while being incarcerated. Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent‚ Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13‚ it was
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