Help my kids study the weather!

[Hinotori]

We just assume that if you give it 10 minutes it will rain here.

Summer here is mostly dry and runs from July 4 to Labor Day.


Woolly bear caterpillars are supposed to predict how harsh winter will be. More black (narrow orange) means nastier winter. Wide orange middle band is mild winter. I just wish they would stay out of my utility room.

 

[FarmerJamie]

@FarmerJamie - You're full of 'em, lol! (I didn't say full of "it"!)

Thanks, I probably am, though.

 

[flowerbug]

I forgot about joints aching meaning that storms are coming.

Bad joints do react to rapid changes in barometric pressure. That is usually a sign of a storm coming in.

yeah, i sometimes notice changes in the weather coming but changes in sinus pressure and sometimes even sinus headaches.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

What a great project! I wish I had a good answer for you - my only weather prediction "skill" is to be able to smell rain coming. I wonder why that is? I know lots of people can do it - but what is the action that makes it possible to smell it coming?

 

[wyoDreamer]

Solar dehydrator or solar cooker.
Build a simple water wheel and talk about how the power is/was used. IE. make electricity, grind grains into flour, move water for irrigation.

 

[FarmerJamie]

ring/halo around the moon predicting rain/snow

 

[FarmerJamie]

Fish respond to barometric pressure. Too many examples to post here. A quick internet search can give you the full list, including pressure levels. Simply, degrading weather activates feeding

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Meteorologist: What other job can you have, where you can be wrong more than 50% of the time, where it doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong... and you still get to keep your job????