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Competencies
C-1.3, C-2.2
• Life Skills
• Analysing
• Experiential Learning
21st CENTURY SKILLS • Hands-on Learning
• Remembering
4 Weather
• Critical Thinking
Warm Up • Life Skills
Look at the picture.
Rain has just stopped and a bright
rainbow is seen in the blue sky.
Can you describe the weather?
Do you get newspaper at your home?
Search for the ‘Weather Report’ column
in it. This column tells about how hot or
cold is the day going to be. Also, will it New Delhi Dibrugarh
Lucknow
be cloudy or rainy? The weather report Ahmedabad Kolkata
is helpful in a number of ways. It may Mumbai Hyderabad
tell a farmer whether to sow the seeds in
his field or not. Generally, we look at the Chennai
sky to know about the weather. A person 19 Sep 2012 13:32 GMT
who studies the Earth’s atmosphere and Weather report
forecasts about the weather is called a meteorologist.
WHAT IS WEATHER
Weather is the state of atmosphere at a particular place and time. The weather
changes from season to season and from day to day. It may even change many
times in a day. For example, it could be sunny at noon but may become cloudy
after an hour.
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