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WEATHER AND CLIMATE 



Van Cleef, Story of the Weather (Century) 

 Heile, The World's Moods (Follett) 

 Free and Hoke, Weather (McBride) 

 Elm, Weather and Why (McKay) 

 Luckiesh, The Book of the Sky (Button) 

 McAdie, Fog (Macmillan) 

 United States Weather Bureau Bulletins 



The Daily Weather Map with Explanations 



Explanation of the Weather Maps 



The Weather Bureau 



Weather Forecasting, No. 42 



Wind Barometer Table 



Reports which may be prepared 



1. The early history of the thermometer 



2. Cloud formations and their use in weather fore- 

 casting 



3. The weather prediction service of other coun- 

 tries 



4. Weather instruments and their uses 



5. Interesting weather lore 



6. Thunderstorms and their causes 



7. The tornado 



8. Historic hurricanes 



9. The various forms of water 



10. Interesting temperatures and their measure- 

 ment 



11. How the weather map serves the people of the 

 country 



12. Aviation and the weather 



13. A visit to the local Weather Bureau 



14. Observations made during a thunderstorm 



15. Storm warnings used by the United States 

 Weather Bureau 



16. The good and bad features of the climate in 

 which I live 



Great scientists you should know about 



1. Gabriel Fahrenheit 



2. Benjamin Franklin 



3. Galileo Galilei 



4. Otto von Guericke 



5. Blaise Pascal 



6. Evangelista Torricelli 



Investigations and things to do 



1. Make a set of weather flags. 



2. Make a rain gauge. 



3. Make a weather map for a series of days. 



4. Make a device for telling the velocity of the 

 wind. 



5. Make a thermometer. See Good, Laboratory 

 Projects in Physics. 



6. Make'a sling psychrometer for measuring rela- 

 tive humidity. 



7. Visit the local Weather Bureau station. 



8. Set up an amateur weather forecasting station. 



9. Make a scrapbook of clippings and articles about 

 the weather. 



10. Make a hygrometer from two cheap thermome- 

 ters. 



