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1)   Temperature * Draw a line to connect areas of the same temperature. (These areas may form closed curves.)

 

2)        Radar  [Doppler Radar} Name 3 states which are (in this map 10/14) having the most severe precipitation:

 

 

Forecasters claim to perfect weather data

            By Adam Gorlick, Associated Press

AMHERST, Mass. — Severe weather claims hundreds of lives and costs billions of dollars in damage every year. Now, forecasters believe the menace may have met its match.

Scientists led by engineers at the University of Massachusetts say they will soon be predicting tornadoes, hurricanes and severe thunderstorms faster than ever before — and lowering casualty rates by taking the wind out of the surprise factor.

In a UMass student center packed with professors, administrators and business leaders, officials on Wednesday announced the creation of the $40 million Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere. ...(to be continued at the bottom of  p.2)
Satellite ** This InfraRed image was taken at 7:30 PM 10/14. Why is it BRIGHTER than the radar image above taken around the SAME TIME?

 

 4)  Precipitation  * In which state do the meteorologists think most rain will fall (in this 10/14/03 image)?

 

Forecasters claim to perfect weather data

            By Adam Gorlick, Associated Press  (cont.)

 

            Within five years, the center will be monitoring low-powered radars attached to cell phone towers throughout the country. The radars will let forecasters watch weather patterns occurring within a mile from the ground, known as the troposphere, where some storms such as tornados first form.

            Those kinds of storms escape detection by larger Doppler radars that can only track weather systems brewing in the upper atmosphere.

            "The key is looking down low, where the weather actually impacts us as people," said David McLaughlin, the UMass professor who will direct the project that also includes researchers from the University of Oklahoma, Colorado State University and the University of Puerto Rico.

5)   Thunderstorm Map * In these isolated storms, what speed do scientists think the WINDS will be?

 

 

  6) Alerts  Name 4 Western states under “Active Warning” and  4 under “Active Special” warnings below: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/bigmain.html

Forecasters claim to perfect weather data

            By Adam Gorlick, Associated Press  (cont. from p.2)

            By stringing together a   series of small radars throughout a community, forecasters say they will be able to predict the length of a thunderstorm, the path of a tornado and the speed of a hurricane faster and more accurately than they can now.

            "We'll be able to track a tornado going down a street," McLaughlin said.

At an estimated cost of $30,000 per radar, researchers say the technology will be affordable and available to municipalities, television stations, emergency centers and businesses that want to better prepare for potentially disastrous weather.

            "We're doing for weather forecasting what cellular telecommunication and the Internet did for how people communicate with each other," McLaughlin said.

            The radars will first be set up in Oklahoma by early 2005, where researchers will test the technology tracking tornadoes. The next test site will be Houston, where forecasters will focus on the problem of urban flooding.

            "The concept is to first put the radars in areas that are most vulnerable to severe weather," said Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma....”