In Science Class . . . Week of 11/15

This week, we'll officially begin our study of weather and weather maps. For fun, we'll be using our mobile computer lab to go online to study weather maps. We're using the site, www.weather.com, but there are lots of sites out there! A sample weather map looks like this:

Key questions:

• What symbols did you see on the weather maps, and what do they mean? ( H= high air pressure, L= low air pressure, etc)
• Why does the California coast have more moderate temperatures than inland? (Because we are near the ocean, and the air over the ocean heats up much more slowly because the ocean itself does not heat up easily). 
• Where do our storms in Berkeley come from? (Primarily from out over the Pacific Ocean)