Weather and Climate Change

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by the direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	The wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and lose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1. 4 straws 

 2.  4 cups

3. pin

4. pencil

5. tape

STEPS  

1.  Step one is to get your cups and poke a hole on the top side of your cup and make it go through on each cup. 
2.  Then get your four straws to take two and connect it together then tape it after doing that do that with the other two.
3. After taping each straw together and make a plus. 
4. Then get you to pin and pin it in the middle of the plus.
5. Then stick the straws where you poke the hole on the cups.
6. The last step is to tape the pencil to the middle of the plus/cross.  It will hopefully look like this.

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper -Risha 
• Counter-Sahara
• Recorder- Rarotonga 
• Anemometer Manager - Nevaeh
• Wind generator- Heat pump, Human breathe slowly, outside, Human breathe fast

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the timekeeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10s	Heat pump-5
2.	10s	Human breathe slowly-3
3.	10s	Human breathe fast-7
4.	10s	Outside -2

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 

CONCLUSION:

The fast breath was very fast

and outside was very slow because there was no wind