Monday, May 27, 2013

Chapter 15: Weather Tracking and Forecasting

And Today's Forecast is...




It is the tendency of present culture to look to the news or weather report for daily information on the climate at any given time, whether it is for warnings predicting extreme weather events, or simply the daily forecast. The weather map is made up of a number of essential details, symbols representing the temperature shown in degrees, dew point temperature and air pressure being a few. We look to weather maps like the illustration above because they provide an idea of what the weather will be as a result of alternating winds and their patterns. In this way, we almost attempt to predict nature, but as is the common case with weather forecasts, they can never be 100% accurate.  


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