New
Key Geography for GCSE Links - Chapter 6 - Britain’s
weather & climate
Weather
websites
The
Met Office
http://www.meto.gov.uk
The Met Office provides a wide range of data and
services which are shown clearly on their home page.
The site includes a learning section with a number
of online activities you could attempt as part of
this unit:-
http://www.meto.gov.uk/education/data/actsecondary.html
The
site also includes a collection of online leaflets
about topics such as how to interpret a weather
chart, air masses and hurricanes:-
http://www.meto.gov.uk/education/curriculum/index.html
There
is also a collection of ideas for GCSE coursework
at
http://www.meto.gov.uk/education/curriculum/leaflets/gcse1.html
Online
weather stations
It
is possible to download the latest weather conditions
as well as archives of weather data from online
weather stations. The Snowdonia weather station
is a particularly good example of this, it even
includes a webcam.
Snowdonia
weather station
http://www.fhc.co.uk/weather/live/
The site currently has three weather stations that
are live on the internet, all located on Snowdon,
the highest peak in England and Wales. They are
situated in Llanberis (105m) at Clogwyn station
(770m) and on Snowdon summit (1085m). These provide
a live and unique mountain profile from valley bottom
to mountain summit. They record the weather and
climate conditions on Snowdon every minute, every
day summer and winter.
What is Britain’s climate?
- pages 90 and 91
Onlineweather.com
http://www.onlineweather.com/v4/uk/climate/index.html
This website provides climate data for different
places in the UK. You could import this data into
a spreadsheet and create climate graphs for different
locations, similar to diagram A on page 90 of the
pupil’s book.
How can we forecast the weather? - pages
84 and 85
Interpreting a satellite image
- Activity Sheet 6.6
Click
on the link to the Met Office website for the latest
satellite image of Britain, once you have read the
following instructions.
You can now apply what you have learnt about identifying
weather features on satellite images by using the
latest image downloaded from the internet.
a) Visit the Met Office website
http://www.meto.govt.uk
b) Go to the satellite image
section and download the latest image.
c) Click the right mouse button
over the image, and select copy.
d) Paste the image into a Desk
Top Publishing file.
e) Look carefully at the image.
What type of weather system is shown – a
depression or anticyclone?
f) Use the DTP software tools
to label the features of the weather system onto
the image.
g) Print your labelled satellite
image.
h) Watch the national weather
forecast on television, compare your labelled
image with the forecast.
i) Write an account of the type
of weather you experienced as the weather system
on your satellite image passed over Britain.
The
latest satellite image of Europe can be downloaded
from this page on the Met Office site
http://www.meto.govt.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html
These images are in JPEG format and occupy about
75 KBytes. The Infrared image should be updated
with the 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 GMT pictures
at about 30 minutes past the hour.
Other
useful weather sites
BBC
Weather Centre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
This site is clearly set out and the home page provides
the latest satellite image from the Met Office together
with regional forecasts. There are also feature
articles about the BBC forecast service and links
to any weather related TV programmes. There are
a number of items of interest to teachers such as
a glossary which gives definitions of concepts/terms
used in weather studies and a map of shipping forecast
regions. The Weatherwise section of the site provides
basic information about the weather which will provide
useful support to the pages in this unit of the
pupil’s book from pages 74 to 85.
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