WEATHER

INSTRUMENT
 WHAT IS WEATHER INSTRUMENT?

• Is any device that measures weather-related

conditions.
• Meteorologist- scientist who study and measures
weather conditions.
 DIFFERENT WEATHER INSTRUMENTS
• ANEMOMETER
• BAROMETER • WEATHER RADAR
• WEATHER SATELLITES • RAIN GAUGE
• THERMOMETER • WIND VANE
• WEATHER STATION • WEATHER MAPS
• LIGHTNING DETECTOR • HYGROMETER
• BAROGRAPPH • CEILING BALLOON
 ANEMOMETER
• Anemometer is a weather instrument
used to measure wind speed and wind
pressure.
• they all have a feature that is design to
move when it’s windy to calculate the
wind speed.
 BAROMETER
• scientific instrument that is used to
measure air/atmospheric pressure in a
certain environment.
• it works by balancing the weight of mercury in the glass
tube against the atmospheric pressure, similar to set of
weighing scale.
 WEATHER SATELLITE
• an important observational tool for
all scales of NWS(National Weather
Service) forecasting operations.
• an artificial satellite that revolves
around the earth and detects and reports weather
patterns on the Earth’s surface.
THERMOMETER

• Measures the degree of hotness

and coldness of a given substance.
It is used to measure the temperature outside at any
given time
 RAIN GAUGE
• Measures the amount of rain that has fallen
over a specific area. This weather instrument is
a container which is place in an open area to
collect the rain water.
 WIND VANE
• Also called weather vane/ Weathercock-
is an instrument used for showing the
direction of the wind.
• The word vane comes from the Old English word ‘fana’,
which means “FLAG”.
 WEATHER MAPS
• A map showing the state of the current
weather over a large area and it shows
what the weather in that area will be in
the coming hours or days.
HYGROMETER
• used to measure humidity of water
vapour in the air.
• humidity is the wetness of air around us.
CEILING BALLOON

• Another way of determining the heights of the

cloud base is using a ceiling balloon.
• it is filed with gas lighter than air, usually hydrogen,
and realeased.
WEATHER STATION

• is a collection of instruments and

sensors that measures atmospheric

and soil conditions.
LIGHTNING DETECTOR

• Is a device that detects lightning

produced by Thunderstorms.
 BAROGRAPH
• A barometer that records it’s
readings on a moving chart. This
makes a continuous pen and ink
trace of the changing atmospheric
pressure on a chart.
 WEATHER RADAR
• also called weather surveillance
• radar and doppler weather radar, is
• a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its
motion, and estimate its type( rain, snow and hail).
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