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How Do You Measure Rainfall?
How Do You Measure Snowfall?
How Can I Compare My Weather Measurements to Others?
How Can I Find Out the Normal Precipitation for My Area?
What Does a Weather Balloon Do & Measure?
What's the Best Place to Take a Weather Temperature?
What Does the Term Knot Mean?
How Do Weather Conditions Affect Visibility?
What Is Humidity?
How Do Clouds Form?
What Causes Lightning?
What Causes Hail?
How Can I Tell How Far Away a Lightning Strike Hit?
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Summary: The best way to compare weather measurements with others is to contact local weather stations or visit the Nation Weather Service's Web site. Find out why it's helpful to know others in the weather community with help from a meteorologist in this free video on understanding weather.
Charlie Neese is an Emmy Award-winning television meteorologist and severe weather safety expert based in Nashville, Tenn.read more
"Today we are talking about taking your weather measurements and comparing them to other areas and measurements. And there are a couple of different ways to do this. Number one if you know a lot of folks that are very interested in weather and have their own weather stations at their homes, you can simply, through the internet mainly through email, keep track of what everybody's measurements are. Now there are a couple of websites that you can use to compare your measurements to others in the area. Number one you can go and use the National Weather services website. And that basically starts with weather dot gov. There is another website though that mainly has a lot of amateur observers, weather observers that they like to use, it's called weather underground and the website address for that is simply wunderground dot com. And once you go there and you type in your specific location there'll be several maps that you can see and you'll see plots of other weather observers observations, temperature, humidity, wind any kind of rain fall, highs and lows that sort of thing. And this might be one of the easiest ways to compare your specific location and in that case you probably won't even know, you don't have to know the other people that are involved with it, you just simply compare your readings to what everybody else's is around the area. The National Weather service also uses official weather observers that probably include areas close to your location. You can look those up on the internet using weather dot gov. And that will also give you a good idea of some of the other readings around your community."
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