Weather Notes Page 8
1-6 Notes

    W. Predicting the weather:

        1. Local weather observers, balloons, satellites, and weather stations around the world.

         2.  Weather maps are maps with symbols that show the country's weather. (They can be found in almost any newspaper or on the internet.) 

Included on weather maps are curved lines called isotherms.  Isotherms connect locations with the same temperature. 

Isobars are lines that join places on a map that have the same air pressure.

      X. Controlling the Weather:  People would love to control the weather to prevent damaging storms, floods, and droughts.  At the present time weather control is limited to cloud seeding.  (The use of dry ice or silver iodide crystals)  This has been helpful with removal of fog at airports or making hailstorms and hurricanes less destructive.