Webquest Part 8. Environment Canada Weather Office Virtual Field Trip.
We're going to learn more about weather over the next few weeks. Today we are going to have an introduction to the diverse weather services that Environment Canada provides and we're going to take a look at a few weather maps.
Click on the Environment Canada Weather Office Tour and look around:
http://ec.gc.ca/meteoaloeil-skywatchers/default.asp?lang=En&n=F38CD07E-1
Question 15. What is the jet stream? Click on "today's map" of the jet stream. Are we on the cool side or the warm side?
Question 16. What are three types of weather forecasts Environment Canada makes?
Check out the link on Canada's Weather Networks (not TV, they are systems of measuring weather data across Canada):
http://ec.gc.ca/meteoaloeil-skywatchers/default.asp?lang=En&n=637EE973-1
Question 17. What is the Radar network? Click on the link that shows the precipitation radar tools. How much precipitation has been measured in Vancouver today?
Click on the virtual tour of weather data collection instruments:
http://ec.gc.ca/meteoaloeil-skywatchers/default.asp?lang=En&n=210AED87-1
Question 18. What is an anemometer? What is a thermistor?
Click on the Environment Canada Weather Office Tour and look around:
http://ec.gc.ca/meteoaloeil-skywatchers/default.asp?lang=En&n=F38CD07E-1
Question 15. What is the jet stream? Click on "today's map" of the jet stream. Are we on the cool side or the warm side?
Question 16. What are three types of weather forecasts Environment Canada makes?
Check out the link on Canada's Weather Networks (not TV, they are systems of measuring weather data across Canada):
http://ec.gc.ca/meteoaloeil-skywatchers/default.asp?lang=En&n=637EE973-1
Question 17. What is the Radar network? Click on the link that shows the precipitation radar tools. How much precipitation has been measured in Vancouver today?
Click on the virtual tour of weather data collection instruments:
http://ec.gc.ca/meteoaloeil-skywatchers/default.asp?lang=En&n=210AED87-1
Question 18. What is an anemometer? What is a thermistor?