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1 PAD3O Weather AssignmentYou are to answer any 5 of the following 7 below using available resources (books,magazines and internet) to find answers. 1. Where we live, the Weather systems move from West to East, why is that?2. Draw a high-pressure system and low-pressure system. Include the direction of rotationfor each, as well as, the direction that wind travels between Draw a cumulonimbus cloud. is the more common name? kind of localized pressure is this? is it able to create hail? are hazards associated with cumulonimbus clouds for outdoorenthusiasts?4. Find a cloud table and draw all the clouds and label When in the outdoors, it is very important to be able to recognize the signs of happens when a low-pressure system comes upon a high-pressuresystem that would allow us to predict the changing conditions?

2 F. What happens when a high-pressure system comes upon a low-pressuresystem that would indicate Weather conditions may be changing?6. Besides the continental Weather patterns, there are also local Weather patterns. Theselocal Weather patterns are more pronounced during hot summer days and inlocations where there are large bodies of water and or Explain the wind cycle that will occur on hot summer days in areas with largebodies of what outdoor enthusiasts will need to take into Explain the wind cycle that will occur on hot summer days in mountainous How is this beneficial to paragliders and gliders? 7. Farmers, fisherman and other people who have spent a lot of time in the outdoors havecreated Weather lore to predict the Weather very accurately. As the equipment hasimproved, scientists have been able to explain some of this Weather lore.

3 Take 2examples of Weather lore and attempt to explain it yourself or research theexplanation for them.