Children related weather web-sites?
Mar 12, 2010
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Directly after hurricane Katrina, our 6-year-old daughter announced to us that she would like to be a meteorologist. She would like to learn better ways to warn people when a storm is coming. I am looking for weather related web sites for children. I would like to find age appropriate information for her. I would also love weather tracking graphs or printouts. Maybe even a print out so that she can track the weather from day to day. Thank you so much, Oh and don’t worry. We would never pressure our children to do anything, simply supply the tools. We are in Pittsburgh if you have any contacts at a local news/weather station.
Once again, thank you very much for your help.
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3 comments
UALog on March 12, 2010 at 2:13 am
The are numerous sites. Here are just a few sites. Start from the first link for her age. Then printout some of the other things available on the other links as she advance as her knowdledge grows. Several of these links will have weather tacking forms, graphs, and charts that you can print out to use.
http://www.education.noaa.gov/sweather.html
http://www.education.noaa.gov/sclimate.html
http://www.education.noaa.gov/socean.html
http://www.education.noaa.gov/sspace.html
http://www.education.noaa.gov/students.html.
As a parent, this may be of interest to you. You can read up on the more advance site to add to any details to any question she may have.
http://www.srh.weather.gov/jetstream/
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/home.rxml
http://www.education.noaa.gov/teachers.html
http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/aera/
Want to talk to an expert…
http://www.nwas.org/committees/ed_comm/nwaque~1.htm
Look up the meaning of a meteorological term
http://www.nwas.org/committees/ed_comm/edu_links.html
Books and Video for students
http://www.nwas.org/committees/ed_comm/kidsbo~1.htm
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/kids.htm
And something from FEMA
http://www.fema.gov/kids/
Some stuff you can order (most for free).
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/more.htm
And finally a link to the Hurricane Center where if you scroll down the web page, you will find links that you can download the hurricane tracking charts for her to follow these storms. There are also archive data where you can follow tropical storm from previous years. Hope this is what you are looking for.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Monica A on March 12, 2010 at 2:13 am
http://www.weatherwizkids.com has some age-appropriate info for your daughter. They even include Hurricane tracking charts, tornado information and lots of other stuff. Some things are from the NOAA which has, in my experience, been pretty accurate as far as the forecast goes. Hope this helps!
titi on March 12, 2010 at 2:13 am
There is http://www.weatherwizkids.com,www.kathimitchell.com. it is all I know.