Weather Forecasting | Weather sleuths everywhere
Weather sleuths everywhere
About 12,000 weather stations throughout the world communicate weather observations and data to international weather centers every three hours where the information is analyzed by meteorologists,Scientist who studies the weather and the atmosphere. who study the weather and the atmosphere. The weather stations consist of outdoor shelters, known as Stevenson screens, that house instruments such as thermometers, which measure air temperature, and anemometers, which record wind speed. All instruments at these stations are of the same type and accuracy.
Weather stations also record many other weather elements, including types of clouds, humidity, air pressure, precipitation (rainfall or snowfall), and visibility. Instruments and equipment that record weather in the upper atmosphere include radar, satellites,
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