Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Waiting for the Typhoon

Well, it looks like we have another typhoon headed our way this week. I'm sure everyone has already started securing loose items on the balcony and in the yard.

If you're looking for some interesting educational ideas for typhoons, check out some of these.

Beaufort Wind Scale illustration from Howtoons. Last year we did our own illustrations in the spirit of this chart during the "back to school" typhoon.

Typhoons and hurricanes are the same kind of storm, just happening in different locations. Weather Wiz Kids has some good info on hurricanes and what causes the different resulting effects of the storm like storm surge.

The education section of the National Weather Service has some good stuff on weather in general and storms in particular.

NOAA has a great education site. Weather, reef exploration, climate, marine life, etc are all profiled and explained. They have tons of info on hurricanes.

If this strikes up an interest in weather science, you might be interested in the online weather course available from NOAA. It's called Jetstream and it seems very good.

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