Introduction to Weather

You can look outside, listen to the weather forecast on the news or check online.

You may have experienced stormy, sunny, rainy, windy and snowy weather.

Your favorite might be sunny, so you can play outside. Snowy weather might give you a snow day, so there will be no school.

Weather forecasters look at temperature, wind, clouds and air pressure.

Thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes are examples of severe weather.

It can help people make decisions about what clothes to wear and if it is safe to go somewhere. It can help keep us safe.

You might see clouds, sun, rain, airplanes, kites, snow, lightning and more.

Clouds are made up of tiny droplets of water.

Scientists use patterns to make predictions about the weather. For example if they know that weather almost always moves from west to east, they can predict which way a thunderstorm will move.

So that we can stay safe and get inside.

When it is cold outside, rain can freeze into a solid. Snow is just frozen water.

It provides plants with water so that plants can grow. It can provide people with water to drink.