Guest J430 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Caitlin www.google.com.au is the answer to most of your questions. www.bom.gov.au is also a very good source of information about the weather. Hope that helps! J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitlin Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 thank you i will have a look:thumb_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1946 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Thunder and lightning. Hi and welcome. For some realy good photos and information, try www.australiansevereweather.com This is set up by a couple of storm chasers, and they have some good video and an awful lot of photos. Good luck with the project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Didn't the latest issue of flight safety have an article on lightning, thunder and storms. I pass my copy on to the airstrip dwellers, but i am sure I read about it recently. From memory there are at least 3 types of lightning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ROM Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Caitlin, have a look at this site for your thunder and lightning project. http://lightning.thunder.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelorus32 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 What are isobars? hello my name is Caitlin and my daddy joined me here.what are isobars G'day Caitlin, Isobars are lines on the weather map. The word isobar is made up of two parts: "Iso" means equal. "Bar" is a measure of pressure. So Isobar means "equal pressure". On the weather map the isobars are lines of equal atmospheric pressure. Air wants to flow from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure and this is what causes wind. If you look at a weather map you will see the letter L and the letter H. H means that this is a centre of High pressure and L means that this is a centre of Low pressure. The Isobars are like wriggly circles around the Lows and the Highs. The wind blows at an angle to the isobars from H to L. The closer the Isobars are together the stronger the wind blows. In the southern hemisphere where we live the wind blows clockwise around a low and anti-clockwise around a high. Get your dad to show you this on a weather map. Bye for now Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPete Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Well done Mike. regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vk3auu Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Ian, look up P4C in Google. Caitlin looks like she will benefit. Don't you blokes give her all the answers, just point her in the right direction so that she can suss out the answers for herself. Caitlin, just beware that some of these old blokes don't lead you up the garden path. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitlin Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Tanks very much rom i will have a look :big_grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Caitlin. I was wrong about the magazine, now I shall have to try and find the artlcle and let you know what it says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Caitlin. I couldn't find my original source but http://www.weatherquestions.com looks a good site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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