- What do you need to do to become a meteorologist? What do you need to learn about?
- What kind of data do meteorologists use to describe and predict the weather?
- Why is the weather likely to be clear and sunny when the air pressure is high, and wet and rainy when the air pressure is low?
- Watch your local weather report on television for a week. Did you see any patterns in the weather map? How could you tell what kind of weather comes with a high pressure system or a low pressure system?
- Amy lives in the northeastern part of the United States. Do you think all the dramatic weather events described occur where she lives? Do they occur where you live? Which, if any, of these events have you experienced?