Mr Coffill Meteorology

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Meteorology in simple terms is the study of the atmosphere. Forecasting is predicting what the weather is going to look like at certain areas using orbs, satellite and radar. The reason for forecasting the weather is form the general public wondering what the weather is going to be like, to military operations planning an attack and need a certain amount of rain to do it. Mr. Coffill went from topic to topic showing the students a satellite image of eastern part of Canada and the United States. Mr. Coffill then went on to show the students three type of radars: observation data, lightning data, and thunderstorms during the month of February. He went into a bit about the aviation code that the government uses, showing us two examples of the …show more content…

Coffill was extremely interested in his subject, so much he came from New Brunswick to present in our small high school physics class of less than twenty students. Meteorology is something most students do not take seriously as they rather learn about “real world issues” not considering what weather does is important. Mr. Coffill, hopefully, changed their views of what metrology actually is. Giving us the contours maps was very enlightening because at first look the student’s had no idea what to do, but after Mr. Coffill explained what to do, the students had an idea what to do, but it showed them that meteorology is a much more complicated scientific concept that deserves more …show more content…

Coffill taught the class. They are one hundred symbols that represent a type of weather system. The system is numbered into a chart staring at double zero going to ninety-nine. An example is four dots in a diamond shape means heavy rains continued, and two horizontal lines mean light fog. I found this interesting because meteorologist could say the weather for the day in a few symbols instead of a minute long explanation.
The third thing that Mr. Coffill said that caught my attention was the Tephigram Graph. The Tephigram Graph is what ninety percent of the time meteorologists take to graph the weather in a location. It is a graph where on the x-axis the farther left is colder, and right is warmer. There are three lines on the graph a solid line of the temperature, a different colour line showing the derivative of the temperature. Then a third line that is dotted is if you put a wet piece of paper towel on the measurement to get the “wet

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