Heat Transfer
Heat transfer through direct touch.
Conduction
This powers the water cycle.
The sun.
Cumulus Clouds
Rain gauge
The warming of the pacific ocean, brings rainy winters.
El Nino
Heat Transfer in air or water.
The process of the water cycle where water is heated and it turns into a gas, called vapor.
Evaporation
Low, grey clouds that blanket the earth
Stratus clouds
This tool measures the temperature.
Thermometer
A high altitude band of wind that separates two air masses.
The Jet Stream
Waves, the sun, microwave ovens, lightbulbs.
Radiation
Precipitation
High, wispy clouds. Sometimes indicate that a change in weather is coming.
Cirrus clouds
This tool shows which direction the wind is blowing.
Wind vane
Material that allows heat to transfer easily.
When water vapor cools and turns back into a liquid. This is also the process that forms clouds.
Condensation
Indicates that we might have dry weather.
High pressure system
This tool shows how fast wind is blowing
Anemometer
This keeps winter weather mild during winter months at coastal cities like Wilmington.
The Gulf Stream
Directionality of heat transfer.
Hot to cold.
When plants release water vapor into the atmosphere.
Transpiration
Indicates that we might have rainy, lousy weather.
Low pressure system.
This tool tells you what the air pressure is
Anemometer
These winds blow our weather from west to east.
Prevailing westerlies