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Meteorologist Badge Course

November-December 1980

Meteorology

Requirements:

1. Keep from your own observations a daily record of the weather for at least one month, to include at least four of the following: wind force and direction, cloud type and amount, weather using Beaufort letters, temperature, pressure, rainfall amount.

2. Understand the working principles of the following instruments and construct a simple version of one of them: thermometer, barometer, sunshine recorder, anemometer, rain gauge.

3. Understand at least three different ways in which clouds are formed.

4. Know the typical weather produced in your area by warm and cold air masses in summer and winter, noting the different effects of land and sea track. Understand the weather associated with a change of air mass at fronts.

5. Know how synoptic weather maps are produced and be able to understand a simple map with fronts and isobars, similar to those shown on television and printed in some newspapers. Relate your observations, in requirement 1 above, to these maps.

6. Understand the effects of temperature, wind and water on the human body in cases of exposure and exhaustion.

Weather record entries shown include 1st July: fine and sunny, showers forecast; 2nd July: overcast with slight showers, rain forecast.

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