How can we predict the weather?
Imagine you want to have your birthday party in the park on Saturday. How do you know what the weather will be like? You check the weather forecast!
A person who studies the weather and predicts what it will be like in the near future.
Machines in orbit around the Earth. They take pictures of the clouds and send information.
Meteorologists analyse the information from instruments and satellites and make maps with symbols.
Weather map symbols
To talk about the weather in the future we use will when we are sure and may when it is possible but we are not sure. There will be snow in the mountains tomorrow. · It may rain in the north on Saturday. · It won't (will not) be cold in the south.
You need two paper plates, card, a plastic straw, a pencil with a rubber, a cocktail stick, modelling clay, glue and a compass. Write N, E, S and W on a plate. Cut an arrow point and tail from the card and put them in the ends of the straw. Push the cocktail stick through the middle of the straw into the rubber of the pencil, and stand the pencil in the clay between the two plates. Take it outside and use the compass to point N to the north. Which way is the wind blowing? Ask an adult to help with the scissors!