Vocabulary: Rain, wind or shine!

Weather: It is the state of the atmosphere in a specific place at a specific time. It changes every day.

Precipitation: This is the water that falls from the atmosphere. It can be rain, snow or hail.

Wind: This is the movement of air. It can be light breeze, a gale or a hurricane.

Air temperature: This causes the weather to be hot or cold.

Rain gauge:It measures the amount of precipitation.

Anemometer: It measures the wind speed.

Weathervane: It measures the wind direction.

Thermometer: It measures the temperature of the air.

Meteorologists: They are people who study the weather. They use different instruments.

Forecast: The prediction of what will happen.

Satellite: It gives us data about hurricanes, pollution or more. It is in space. 

Radar: It can locate precipitation.

Weather station: It usually has a rain gauge, an anemometer, weathervane and a thermometer. 

Weather balloon: It collects data about temperature and humidity. 

GIS: Geographic Information System is a program that help interpret the information and create weather maps.

Climate: It is the average weather in a specific place over many years.

Polar climate: It is the climate that has cold temperature and is covered with snow most of the time.

Temperate climate: It is the climate that has hot and cold weather. 

Tropical climate: It is the climate that has warm or hot temperatures.

Atmosphere: the gases surrounding the earth.

Climate change: Any very significant change in Earth's climate.

Greenhouse effect:  the warming of the earth's surface that happens when heat from the sun is held in by the earth's atmosphere.

Floods: An overflow of water onto land that is not normal.

Heatwaves: A period of unusually hot weather.

Droughts: A long period with little or no rain.is the state of the atmosphere in a specific place at a specific time.