Weather record

During the month of April there was many changes in the weather. The high of the month was on April 11 and the coldest day was April 2. The average high for the month was 53.2 and the average low was 32.8. There was six days of precipitation during this period of time over 3 inches. Michigan wouldn't be in a drought stage because we got plenty of rain this month. Drought doesn't ever affect Michigan except for a few month out of the year during the summer.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-wrath-of-2007-americas-great-drought-452611.html


http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/achesandpains/local/48827?lswe=48827&lwsa=Weather36HourAchesAndPainsCommand&from=whatwhere

West D

There are many wind belts all over the world. They are always changing in direction. When the wind wind belts change it shifts it makes the ocean water shift 90 degrees to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and shifts 90 degrees to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. There are many changes in the wind belts each year, this always chages the ocean waters.

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wwhlpr/global_winds.rxml

http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/climate/Older/Wind_Belts.html

Activity 4

In this experiment we had six bottles filled with six different dirts/sands. In this Bottles A and B dirt from all over the place was placed in the bottles. In bottles C and D sand from a desert was placed. Then in bottles E and F dirt from a body of water was place. After finishing the experiment I found out that the sand from the deserts warmed up the fasted and held more heat. The dirt from a body of water warmed up second fastest then the dirt from all over warmed up the slowest. The sand would be the worst if we had a drought because it is the hottest and and holdes less water. The dirt from all over would help during a drought because it stayes cooler and holdes more water.


http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A168902

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VBOL-6GGGSP?OpenDocument

Changing Weather on April 1

The la nina was a reason the temp. droped so rapidly on the day of April 1st. The ocean curent made a change making the temp drop .5 degrees celisus in spots all over the world. The poler circulation help with the wind blowing off the rigde of Alaska cooling the eastern part of America. On April first ther was a split jet steam that was 7 miles above earth making all earth temps drop very quickly. All these thing made temps drop and made many people cold in the after noon instead of in the morning.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-jetstrea.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/113520172/ABSTRACT

West C

Atmosheric motion lifts water vapor to high altitudes and causes drought. If this happens it causes many plants and animals to try to survive for a short period of time without water. But when the thewater vapor is released it fills up all lakes and gives all the plants and animals water to keep them hydrated. Atmosheric motion is a main cause of drought.

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=1455&title=Floods%2C+Droughts%2C+and+Climate+Change&subtitle=&author=Michael+Collier%3B+Robert+H.+Webb

http://books.google.com/books?id=JXI9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=atmospheric+motion+and+drought&source=web&ots=f8KZZsfg-m&sig=48tmiOPtejFSn_w3IeSHwMphbuQ&hl=en#PPA109,M1