HW 1/27- Monster Storms Trip

2/27/2012

WOW what a great first day back! I am so impressed with how much we learned today and the great questions you were asking! We will be studying weather and planets after our current unit and I am excited to use what we learned today!

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Part 1
Answer two of the following questions:
-Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow?
-Why do snowflakes come from?
-Why isn’t ice slippery
-What do you find inside hail?

Part 2

Look at the following picture. Make 2 observations and 1 inference.

Part 3

What are 2 questions that you still have? Explain why you want to know more about these things!

46 Comments

ashley r.

2/27/2012 04:56:51 am

Part 1: Inside hail is layers of ice and water. It looks like onions! A rain drop can not turn into snow because when the rain reaches the cold air, it turns into ice and drops to the ground.
Part 2:An observation i made is that there is more warm air than cold air. I also observed that the rain does not interact with the cold air. I inferred that the freezing rain is called that because it came in touch with the cold air just a little to be freezing, but not to cold or it would be ice.
Part 3: How do you predict the weather? Why did you want to do this?

Emily

2/27/2012 05:02:34 am

Inside hail you find many layers that form and sustain a hailstone. It often looks like an onion on the inside with the layers. Hailstones are stones that get swept upward in a thunderstorm or possibly any storm. Then they will freeze in the process and turn to ice. They would then get swept along in the clouds and start falling down as hail. The thicker the hail is the denser and more layers are projected to be inside the hailstone.

Water is a peculiar chemical. Its molecules move further apart from each other when they are in the session of freezing apart. Unlike most chemicals that lose most bulk when the tempeture drops and they become solid, water is more bulky in liquid form than in a certain solid form. When we step on ice we are forcing the water molecules together. This forces the ice to return to a more bulk of a state. Unlike solids liquids are slippery.

I have 2 more questions:

- Where was the largest hailstone recorded in history?
- How Long Can A Hailstorm Last?

Meaghan

2/27/2012 05:07:27 am

Today we learned a few things about weather. Two of them being very interesting topics to me. One is What will you find inside a hail drop. Inside a hail drop is almost like an onion. There are layers of water, ice, and snow. This is because in a thunder storm there are lots of winds that carry rain drops through bits of rain, snow and ice. When picked up by these winds the rain grabs onto each drop and creates layers and layers around itself until it gets so heavy with layers it drops.

Another topic I found interesting is where snowflakes came from. Snowflakes obviously accumulate from cold air. This is because of the fact that a snowflake will melt in the warm air and a rain drop will only freeze in the cold air. Once a rain drop freezes it can only become one thing, ice. So it can only form in cold air.

In the picture I can observe two things and infer at least one. My two observations are that there's only one that look like a snowflake. And the second is that there is a 28* mark where there is freezing rain, to the right of it is freezing rain, and to the left is rain. I can infer that 28* and lower is the point where the rain freezes and 28* and higher is where it stays rain and hits the ground.

Two questions I still have for are first presenter are:

1) How did you come across your theory?
and

2) Have you ever flown in the kind of plane Frank Marks flies in? Did you fly with him?

I want to know more about these things because I think they are both very interesting. Maybe if more scientist knew how are first presenter came up with his theory they could add onto it so it could be 100% accurate. The second one is interesting because since are first presenter was Frank Marks science teacher maybe he helped Frank with the plane. I also think that the hurricane hunter planes are fascinating because of the way there made material wise. (Bullet proof glass, steal that can withstand 200+ mph winds, e.c.t.)

Meredith

2/27/2012 05:17:52 am

The two questions I chose to answer are: What do you find inside hail? and Where do snowflakes come from? Question #1-Inside a hail ball you find layers of snow and ice, similar to an onion. This happens because the hail ball goes through lots of steps that cause snow and ice to stick with it along the way. Question #2-Snow starts to rise from the ground into the air in little water droplets. As more and more and more water vapor rises onto it's surface, the cold air freezes it turning it into an ice crystal. Then a snow cold forms and the snow comes come hard (Blizzard) or easier, like a light snow shower.

When I looked at the picture above I was able to make 2 observations. My first observation was that there are LOTS of forms perception and that some of the precipitations are very dangerous like freezing rain and hail. My second observation is that Ohio gets more sleet than another of the states written on the picture. My 1 inference is Indiana, freezing rain seems to come ALOT so school, peoples jobs and living normally may be harder for them so they will have to learn to work around the freezing rain to do what they normally do.

The 2 questions that I still have are: What is the biggest weather change going to be for our world's future? A new weather, a weather gone or more harsh winters, summers etc. My second question is what is the most common weather in the state of N.Y? I am wondering this because I live in N.Y!!!! The two questions I chose to answer are: What do you find inside hail? and Where do snowflakes come from? Question #1-Inside a hail ball you find layers of snow and ice, similar to an onion. This happens because the hail ball goes through lots of steps that cause snow and ice to stick with it along the way. Question #2-Snow starts to rise from the ground into the air in little water droplets. As more and more and more water vapor rises onto it's surface, the cold air freezes it turning it into an ice crystal. Then a snow cold forms and the snow comes come hard (Blizzard) or easier, like a light snow shower.

Erin

2/27/2012 05:27:14 am

The two questions I choose are, why can’t rain drops turn to snow and what do you find inside hail? If you look at the picture you can see the warm air and the cold air. If rain is made in the warm air, it could never be made in snow because it does not go throw the cold air. Even if it did it would still not make snow.
Piece of hail look like an onion from the inside. Hail goes in a cycle. It goes wet to freezing and then wet again and many more times. That is how the inside of an onion, with many layers. I observed that the warm air is more to Chicago, and the cold air is more to New York. My inference is that New York will have more snow storms than Chicago.

gilly

2/27/2012 05:30:47 am

The reason rain doesn’t turn to snow when it freezes is because the rain falls and turns to ice. The things you find inside hail are rings of snow and ice. One observation that I made is that everything except the snow was first rain then it froze. Another observation that I made is that the difference from sleet and freezing rain is the temperature change of 2 degrees. An inference that I made is that the snow has to start as snow that means that the snow is more specific to be created then other forms of precipitation. One question that I still have is why it is so hard to predict the weather. The reason why I want to know this is because it seems like it is easy on weather stations they just tell you the weather but I know it is hard to know what the weather is. Another question that I have is why it is that rain happens in warm air but not in hot air. The reason why I want to know this is that it is strange that rain only happens in warm air.

Vincent

2/27/2012 05:37:08 am

Hail is made up of rings of different precipitation such as water, snow and ice. Hail forms by going up and down in the clouds. It gets pushed back up into the clouds by the wind collecting more precipitation until it gets too heavy and falls to earth as hail.

Snowflakes come from water vapors in the air that freeze due to cold temperatures. In order for snowflakes to form the air temperature must be below 32 degrees.

Looking at the diagram when temperatures drop rain and freezing rain will turn to first sleet and then snow. I know water freezes at 32 degrees so if the temperature is below 32 than precipitation will change from rain to snow.

In this diagram I see that the clouds that are over Chicago have warmer air than the clouds in NY so the temperature in Chicago must be higher than 28 degrees and since it is raining it is probably higher than 32 degrees. Since rain freezes at temperatures below 32.

Why do snowflakes have so many different shapes? Is it true that no two snowflakes are alike?

What is the difference between freezing rain and hail?

Max

2/27/2012 05:38:35 am

Part One
Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow? : Snow is a layer of a cloud and when water freezes it turns to ice.
What do you find inside hail? : Inside hail, due to the updrafts and downdrafts through the layers of a cloud, Hail will have two layers of ice and two layers of snow.
Part Two
In this picture I am seeing that one something goes through the cold front or lands in the cold fronts area of affect, it will freeze. I also see that the longer something is in the cold front, the more frozen it gets. I can infer by saying, the cold front affects anything that is in it area of effect.

Part Three
My two questions are first, how does the cold front form? I ask this because we just know what the cold front is but not how it forms. My second question is why the cold front goes at an angle? I ask this because how does a gas go at an angle.

Sean S

2/27/2012 05:41:06 am

For part one I will be answering (what do you find inside hail) and (Why isn’t ice slippery) For the first one in hail what you find are layers of snow ice and rain. For the second question, ice itself isn’t slippery because it is a solid. One quality of solids is that when two solids are together there is friction between them that will keep them from slipping. In In,pa,oh, and New York there is cold air line going through that cold airline is precipitation. My inference is that all of the accumulation that is passing through that line will turn into ice. I want to ask only one question and is is will the planets ever aline and cause tornados, hurricanes, and all these other crazy things. The reason I want to know this is I guess for my own good.

Meagan

2/27/2012 05:49:20 am

I am doing questions 3 and 4. Why isn’t ice slippery? Well ice isn’t slippery because it is a solid and because when solids touch they create friction, which is why tell you not to lick a pole when it is icy. The only reason people slip on ice is because it melts when it gets warm, and maybe if it rains afterwards. What do you find in hail? Since it rises through the rain, ice and snow layers on updrafts, and downdrafts there ends up being multiple layers of snow and ice.
One observation I can make is that if rain comes through from warm air into cold air with only a short distance till it lands it doesn’t become snow it becomes freezing rain, or ice. An other observation I made is that when the rain has more time from when it comes from warm to cold air it becomes sleet. One inference I can make with this chart is that because things don’t go from cold to warm air there is more types of precipitations that tend to fall in cold air.
One question I still have is how do the alignment of the moon and the planets actually effect the weather on earth? I want to know more about this so I can understand Jim Witt’s new method better. One other question I have is how Jim Witt discovered the whole theory with the planet alignment. I want to learn more about this because I am curios to how it happened, like did it just dawn on him one day or was he working on the theory for a long time.

Nicholas S

2/27/2012 05:55:56 am

What do you find inside hail? What you find in hail is really just ice and snow in lairs like an onion. Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow? Rain can’t turn into snow because rain requires warm air and snow requires cold air. The two observations that I saw on the picture were that there is a line separating the warm and cold air. Also that there is a huge cloud that has rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow coming out of it. The one inference that I have is there probably going to be freezing rain in Indiana. The two questions that I have are how many feet of snow does it take to make a house collapse and what is it like to be in a ice storm.

Cassidy<33

2/27/2012 06:03:48 am

I will be answering two questions. My first question that I picked is, "What do you find inside hail?" Inside hail, you find a lot of layers of ice and snow. If you cut it in half, it looks like an onion. The second question I picked is, "why isn't ice slippery?" Ice isn't slippery because it needs water to be slippery. So just Ice alone is not slippery. For example, if you go ice skating, the ice skates dig into the ice, which is freezing water, so it makes it slippery.

From the picture, some observations that i made were that the closer it gets to warm air, the less frozen the percipitation becomes. Also, the lie inbetween the warm air and cold air is not straight, it is tilted, going down. An inference I made was that it doesn't take awhile to freeze. In the short distance the rain has, it still freezes and becomes freezing rain.

A question that I still have is, how do you get picked to be a hurricane hunter?

andrew

2/27/2012 06:35:06 am

A rain drop can’t turn to snow because it is water and if it did freeze it would turn to ice. Snowflakes come from the atmosphere know some people like the other question think rain can turn into snow but no. Snowflakes come from themselves not from rain. Because when he was using the example of the ice skate hitting the ice it melts under the blade of the skate so the water on the ice makes it slippery. What you find in hail is snow and ice. One observation I have is that the line that separates the cold air from the hot air is diagonal. The second observation I have is that it rains in the hot weather.
Two questions I still have are first how the weather balloons that they drop off the air plane work do. I want to know more about it because whenever I watch the news they always say coming from our weather balloon our news helicopter I just always wonder. My second question I have is how long one research is on one day of weather take. I wonder this because they always come up with the weather so fast so I wonder how they work it.

Alyssa F.

2/27/2012 06:50:47 am

Part 1: a rain drop cannot turn into a snowflake because a snowflake is really an ice crystal, so a rain drop cannot crystalize while falling out of the sky, it is too big!~~~ inside a chunk of hail, you can find layers of a pattern of snow, ice, snow, ice, snow, ice...
Part 2: one observation I made while Jim Witt was presenting this picture, was the fact that when the rain starts in the warm area, then at the end, it got cold but it was not enough time to freeze into hail or sleet so when the rain splattered it froze on the ground.
Part 3: one question is, what happenes if the top was cold , and the water turned to ice then it melted parshly when it hit the warm. What if cold and warm where switched? Another question was about the animals. When the woman was talking with us about how the frog could survive the winter by freezing, how frozen could the frog get before freezing to death?

Darren

2/27/2012 06:52:48 am

The questions that I would like to answer are, Why isn't ice slippery? and What do you find inside hail? Ice isn't slippery because it is sticky, thats why if you put your tongue to a fresh ice cube out of the freezer, your tongue will stick to it. After a wile of having your tongue on the ice cube, it gets wet from melting from your body heat. That is when it gets slippery.
If you cut open hail you will find layers of ice then snow then ice then snow like an onion.

The observation I made from the chart are that # 1, the warm air is above the cloud level and the cold air is underneath the cloud level.
The other observation is that it is 28 degrees in Indiana so its freezing rain hail in a way but not snow.
The inference I have is that if you keep going west beyond Chile, then it will get warmer.

The questions that I still have are when entering a cloudy foggy hurricane, does it get bumpy from turbulence? The last one is how does how big the hurricane is affect the plane?

The field trip today was an awesome experience for me and I wish to go back again.

maddie link

2/27/2012 07:05:50 am

Ice isn't slippery because it doesn't have any water on it. Before we put our ice cubes into water, they're sticky due to the coldness. But when we dip them in the water, they get slippery in our hands. If you were to cut open a chunk of hail, you would find what looks like an onion. The first layer would be ice, the second would be snow, and the third would be more ice.
One observation for the picture is that most of the lines start in the warm air section and then go into the cold air section. The line probably turns to ice when it hits the cold air section. Another observation is that the middle line is half way in the cold and half way in the warm. That's strange.
One question is: Why is it rare for the planets to line up?
My next question is: Do the other planets get different weather like us? I want to know more about these questions because I find the planets interesting, and if there are any hidden secrets about them, it would cool to know.

Matt Harris

2/27/2012 07:19:00 am

-Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow?
A rain drop can not turn to snow because in mid air a rain drop cant just randomly turn to snow. But what can happen is that when a rain drop hits the ground it can turn to ice. Its when it hits the floor and it plats, After a few minuets it freezes then ends up turning to ice.

-What do you find inside hail?
As we said hail is a onion... If you were to break into a piece of hail you would find layers. It would be water then ice then water then ice. Depending on how big the piece of hail is is how many layers there will be.

What are 2 questions that you still have? Explain why you want to know more about these things!

One question i have is how do you have all of these materials to find all these facts. What i mean by that is like how can you predict the wheather. Like how can you find/buy these things. How much do they cost, where do you buy them, do they get shipped to you or can you go out to a store,

Maia

2/27/2012 07:44:50 am

The first question I am answering is,why can't a rain drop turn into snow?The reason why a raindrop cannot turn into snow is because when it forms as a raindrop in the cloud, it's not forming in the coldest part of the cloud. Therefore, it will become ice.The second question I'm answering is, what do you find inside of hail? The answer to that is, you see all of the different layers inside of the hail. The hail goes through so many cycles, so it gets so many coatings. You can see all of the layers of ice and snow and water. It's really cool, actually.
The first thing I observed from the picture was that at the highest point of the line sectioning off the cold air, it is the coldest there. As you go farther down the line, it gets warmer. The second thing I observed was, when the precipitation forms outside the line, it cannot become snow. I infer that the snow can really only start if the cloud is in the cold zone. If it's not, it might become sleet or freezing rain.
My first question is, does freezing rain simply mean that the rain is cold? Or does it mean that it's icy? I am wondering this because it's warmer than sleet, but still colder that regular rain, and I'd like to know what it really means. My second question is, how cold does it have to be for it to freeze a whole body of water. I was wondering this because I like to skate on ponds, and was wondering if there would be any more opportunities to do that this year.

damien

2/27/2012 07:45:57 am

I will be anwsering the question ''what do you find in Hail ?''. The anwser to that is layers. You find layers of ice in it because it gets bigger and grows larger. One observation I have made is that the cold air is lower down. Another observation I have made is that the tempuratures get higher as they go left. One inference I have is that there is more humidity as the air goes up. One question I still have is ''do you have emergency enjines in the planes?'' and the second question I have is ''do you use special gear?''. I still have those questions because they were just never anwsered and I think they are interesting.

Delia

2/27/2012 07:47:59 am

Wow! I learned a lot today at Monster Storms. The next few sentences are some of the things that I learned. I learned that a raindrop cannot turn into snow because snow is only formed in cold air and rain in warm. If rain goes through cold air it turns into ice. I also learned that, snowflakes come from a cloud in cold air. The water inside the cloud then crystalizes into the snowflakes. Snowflakes are made out of the evaporated water in clouds. Finally, inside hail you find layers because inside the cloud it goes through ice, snow, and rain. All these things stick together to form hail.
As I looked at the picture I noticed that snow is the only precipitation that starts in cold air. I also noticed that warm air was on top of the cold air. From the last observation, I inferred that warm air is lighter and cold air is heavier. This makes it easy for cold air to get under the warm air. I am wondering many things, too. How do the planets affect the weather? It just seems so odd, planets are just planets. I am wondering this because I had always thought that other planets did not affect us. Does the other planet’s weather get affected by the earth’s rotations? I am wondering this because if this was true then we could track other planets weather. Plus, it just seems impossible.

Matt m. link

2/27/2012 07:53:29 am

Part one: I think that rain can not change forms into snow is because snow is formed in the cold part of the cloud and is always in the cold, but Iran is formed in the warm part and can only turn into ice. Not all ice is slippery for example when you reach into your freezer and get some ice, it is not slippery. Ice is only slippery when it isc overed

Matt m

2/27/2012 07:54:51 am

Mar. Scollins please do not post that I pressed the submit button by accident! Sorry.

Chris W.

2/27/2012 08:01:47 am

Inside hail you will find layers of ice and snow like an onion. Ice isn’t slippery unless it is wet. Regular ice will stick and stay so you can’t slip. It’s like licking a frozen pole; your tongue will get stuck to the pole. Snowflakes come from clouds and are made in clouds. What starts out as water will freeze if the temperature is cold enough. Rain drops cannot turn to snow because it is just physically impossible. Although, snow can turn to rain if during the snowfall it gets to hot and melts.
Looking at this picture I see the cold air section and the warm air section. My inference is that I think that the cold air gas to be high enough off the ground otherwise the water that is falling out of the clouds won’t have enough time to freeze.
One question I have is what does the moon have to do with predicting weather? I want to know this because how the planets have different climates but what does the moon have to do with Mars or Neptune? And another one is can hail melt while falling. The reason I’m wondering about this is because it is so compact but ice and snow can melt.

Sierra Flores

2/27/2012 08:10:22 am

Rain drops can’t turn into a snowflake because when the rain drops it doesn’t freeze it just turns into ice. When you chop a piece of hail in half it looks like an onion that’s because when a piece of hail starts off it’s just a rain drop. Then it goes through the cycle that turns it into a giant piece of hail while going in the pattern water, ice and then snow.
I think that it’s really interesting that weather can change so rapidly. I knew that weather was crazy but not like this. I think that it was very interesting to see how quickly a rain drop can turn into chunk of ice or even a bit of snow. If I was in the warm air area and it rained there is no cold air to turn the drop into anything so it says as rain and falls to the ground. Although if that drop of rain was on the cold air side it would turn into a chunk of ice and break when it makes contact with the ground. I infer that with all of the cold air that we’ve been having that we will have a lot of rain that will turn into slush because they cold air will precipitate both rain and I little bit of snow.
A question that I still have about Mr. Jim Witt is how did you come to the discovery of being able to predict weather based on all of the planets? My last question is for Mr. Jim Witt as well, what is the most shocking discovery in weather you have every heard and/or discovered?

hanna s.

2/27/2012 08:15:24 am

The reason some ice isn’t slippery and some is, is because of water. Regular ice is sticky, like if you’ve ever licked a cold pole, your tongue sticks to it. But if you have ever seen black ice, it is slippery because there is a little bit of water on it. If it drizzles a bit on ice that is already on the ground, it will be slippery. Inside hail, you find many layers of ice and snow. This is because of all the updrafts and downdrafts in the part of the thunderstorm hail is made. First, there are drops of water in the warmer air that go into colder air, which freezes it. That is one layer of the hailstone. Then, the little hailstone goes into even colder air, where a layer of snow accumulates on the hailstone. This process repeats, until the hailstone falls to the ground.
An observation I made from the picture is that most of the precipitation showed is developed in warm air. Snow is the only one on the picture that is made in cold air. Also, it was 28 degrees for freezing rain and only two degrees colder for snow. An inference I made is that there is less cold air in a cloud, because less precipitation is formed in cold air.
A question I have is, why does the ice that isn’t wet stick to things? We already learned about wet ice, and now I think it would be cool to compare the two. Does the ice sticking to things have anything to do with frozen condensation? Also, I don’t know a lot about how weather is predicted, and would like to know more. Do they use the planets to predict weather, like Jim Witt did to find out that there will be a big snowstorm THE DAY BEFORE THE HUNGER GAMES COMES OUT!? Can they use animals, and see how they adapt and hide, if they know a storm is coming, like we learned about today?

Austin

2/27/2012 08:15:34 am

A rain drop cannot turn into snow because rain drops form in warm air while snow forms in cold air. Snowflakes also come from cold air like snow. Ice is not slippery because it does not have a mix of water and snow to make it slippery. For example, when you go ice skating at an ice skating rink the blades on your skates cause friction against the ice to melt it enough to glide or skate over it. What I find inside hail are layers of water and ice that looks sort of like an onion.

An observation I have made about this picture is that rain and freezing rain are found in the warm air category. Another observation that I have is that snow is found in the cold air category. One inference that I have is that mostly rain is found in the warm air category and snow is only found in the cold air category. One question that I have is “I know rain cannot turn into snow but can snow turn into rain?” I thought of this question because I thought that snow usually turns into water after a while after being produced. Another question that I have is “What causes sleet?” I thought of this question because sleet is a mix of rain and snow. I thought that maybe the clouds mix to cause this.

Jessica

2/27/2012 08:25:12 am

Rain can't turn into snow because when you stick your water into the freezer for too long it freezes into ice because the cycle is water to ice to snow and it water cant turn into snow because when it rains it is usually in the warm air and when it snows it is in the cold so when it rains and it crosses the line boom Ice. If water could turn into snow we would have trouble. Snow comes from the clouds. It grows from the coldness of the air and as the air gets heavier with all of the snow it drops and if it happens to be in the warm air it turns to water. Well some ice Is slippery and some isn't. Some ice is not slippery because if it is sticky then it will stick on to you sort of and be sticky so you cant slip. If you caught hail falling and cut it open you would find layers of ice water and ice ringing around. I think that if I was to look at the picture before I knew this i would think that what ever was on the warm air Side was warm weather and the cold side cold weather. Another thing that I realized is on each side there's different weather conditions.

Ethan

2/27/2012 08:33:12 am

Part 1

-Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow?
A rain drop cannot turn the snow because of the fact that snowflakes must be created inside a cloud in order to give it its delicate and beautiful ice crystal patterns and its flatness. Although a rain drop cannot turn into a snowflake it can turn into sleet.
-What do you find inside hail?
Inside hail you will find layers of ice and snow sort of like an onion. You might be wondering why is there a snow and ice in there. Well to answer your question you have to understand how hail is formed: Hail starts as a rain drop before entering a upwards drift where it will be coated with a layer of snow and ice before entering a downwards descent do to the weight before either hitting another updraft and repeating the process or plummeting back to earth.

My two observations are:
1. Snow and rain are the two most common types of weather on this chart.
2. Fleet and freezing rain are the least common types of weather on this chart.
My one inference is:
By understanding warm air, cold air fronts weather forecasters can predict better what the weather will be.
Two questions I still have is:
1. What is the predictability level of weather around the planet?
2. How bad is the level of Global Warming on the planet?
!

LaraB.

2/27/2012 08:47:12 am

Why isn’t ice slippery
Some ice is slippery but it is slippery because it has water on it. Ice that isn’t slippery isn’t wet.

What do you find inside hail?
What you find inside hail is snow and ice but, it is in layers so it looks like the inside of an onion.

One of my observations from the chart is that the rain drops are a straight line down because it is heavier so it drops faster, but the snow is a squiggly line down because it is lighter so it drops slower. Another observation I made is that a very small part of the cloud is cold but most of the precipitation turns into ice or is snow. My inference is when it is in the cold air it starts as cold precipitation but when it is in warm air it starts as warm precipitation.

Why is that only a very small part of the cloud is cold but most of the precipitation turns into ice or is snow? I want to know this because if in the future I need to
better understand these things.

Would you recommend this job to other people? I want to know this because when I decide what I want to go to school for I may consider this depending on what he says.

alex

2/27/2012 09:14:24 am

Inside a ball of hail you will find snow and ice. You find this stuff in a ball of hail because when there is a thunderstorm there is a chance of hail. If there is hail, before it falls, the hail goes through this process. The process is first the hail starts off as water in a cloud, and then the water goes up the cloud and freezes and turns into ice. Finally the ice goes even further up the cloud and the ice gets covered in snow. This process can go on for a long time. Rain drops can’t turn into snowflakes because when the rain hits the cold air it freezes and turns into ice. Also rain forms in the warm air and snow forms in the cold. By looking at the picture I can make some observations and some inferences. My first observation is that once rain goes into the cold air it can turn into freezing rain or sleet. Another observation I made is that the only thing that starts in the cold air is snow. One inference I made is that the picture is a chart of where and how certain kinds of precipitation form. I still have a few more questions. One of my questions is why is hail called hail. I want to know this because hail is such an interesting name I think. Another question I have is who discovered rain? I wonder this because there are a lot of people who discover stuff like Christopher Columbus discovered America.

ava

2/27/2012 09:15:45 am

A piece of hail is like an onion full of ice and snow. If you cut open a piece of hail you will see many layers of snow and ice. The inside looks like this: ice, snow, ice, and then snow. I also learned why a rain drop can’t turn into a snowflake. Imagine a line that divides cold air from warm air. Rain can’t become snow unless it is in the clouds waiting to fall into the air. If the rain enters the cold air a little before the rain hits the ground it will only get a little colder.
I observed that the farther away the rain fall is from the cold air area it will most likely stay as rain not snow or frozen rain. I also observed that the tempter in NY is 26 degrees. I infer that the weather in NY is really cold causing the snow to freeze. I don’t have many questions because I think the presentation covered it. How is it that all the planets have a type of weather? I want to know this because it seems very interesting to me. Has he (john Witt) ever been to these planets to discover the weather?

alexa t.

2/27/2012 09:23:02 am

Part 1:
Answer two of the following questions:
-Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow?
-Why do snowflakes come from?
-Why isn’t ice slippery
-What do you find inside hail?
A raindrop cannot turn into snow because once it melts a raindrop cant turn back into snow, but It can re freeze into ice. Than that’s basically sleet.
Where snowflakes come from is cold air and has to be 32 degrees.
Why ice isn’t slippery is because there is water on top of the ice.
What you find inside hail is like a shape of an onion. You have ice, water, and possibly snow.

Part 2:
Look at the following picture. Make 2 observations and 1 inference.

1.My first observation is a cloud that has warm air and cold air and is showing why the weather is rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. There is a layer of warm air on top and cold air on the bottom.

2. My second observation is by the cold air of course it’s going to be snow! Also by Ohio the weather was sitting in warm air but got freezing by the cold air and turned into sleet. In Indiana the same kind of thing happened, it was in the warm air for a while but as soon as the cold air hit it froze the rain up into freezing rain. And by observing the weather in Chicago. It was in warm air the whole time and it stayed as rain.
What I inferred was that the warm air on top was rain until the cold air turned it into freezing rain, snow, and sleet in these different states in all different processes.

Part 3:

What are 2 questions that you still have? Explain why you want to know more about these things!
1. Another question I still have is what makes fronts change? Why do we have cold fronts and why do we have warm fronts?

2. What causes wind? I want to know this because how come some days are windy and some are not?

jacob

2/27/2012 09:36:14 am

Hails core is ice, the second layer is snow, the third layer is ice and the fourth layer is made of snow.

Ice isn't slippery there is no water on or in it.

If the rain never touches a cold from then it remains rain.
If snow never touches a cold front then it remains snow.

If rain doesn't have enough time to become sleet it becomes black ice.

Why does hail sometimes look so tiny?
I want to know this because most of the time when I see hail it looks so small.

On March 22 what kind of storm will happen?
I want to know this because this way I can be prepared. Should I get my snow pants out? Should I batten down the hatches?

Charlotte

2/27/2012 09:41:01 am

Part One
Why isn’t ice slippery? Ice isn't slippery because the water on top of the layer of ice is the part that makes it slippery. Regular ice is just sticky. For example when you pick up an ice cube it doesn't just slide off your fingers it sticks. It's the same thing with ice on the ground, it might be a little sticky, but unless there is water on top of the ice it will NOT be slippery.
What do you find inside hail? Inside hail you will find different layers of snow, ice, and some water that eventually freezes into ice. What happens is when hail is forming inside a cloud it keeps going up and down through different layers in the cloud. First it will go to the ice layer than, the snow layer and eventually the water layer. It repeats in a cycle going up and down through the cloud until it gets too heavy and falls to the ground.
Part 2
One of my observations is that in Ohio it will start out with warm rain in the warm cloud, but then later turn into sleet when it hits the cold cloud before it hits the ground. Another observation I have is there is no bad weather in Pennsylvania probably just cold weather. This makes me wonder if the bad weather will later pass from Ohio to Pennsylvania. I infer that New York will have some snow soon since the snow showers seem to be near NY but not quite in NY.
Part 3
One of the questions I still have is for Frank Marks, it is How do you get to the eye of the storm without experiencing a plane crash or death while you're in the eye wall? I want to know that because I keep wondering how they get to the eye without getting hurt. Another question I have is what point in a hurricane would you normally fly into it? I want to no that because I'm wondering if there is a specific time you usually go into a hurricane, or if you can just go into the storm whenever.

Sophia

2/27/2012 09:55:48 am

PART ONE
Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow?
Rain is water. If you put water in the freezer than it turns into ice not snow, right? So why should in the air be any different.
Where do snowflakes come from?
If the cloud starts in the cold air than the water that evaporated turns into snowflakes, if it starts in the warm air than it just freezes.
Why isn’t ice slippery?
If you pick up a piece of ice than it will have rough edges and smooth edges, if you pour water on the ice than it turns slippery.
What do you find inside hail?
Inside of a piece of hail are layers like and onion. The first layers ice, than snow, than ice again and so on.

PART TWO
My first observation is that if rain falls into the cold air section near the point of the triangle than it is freezing rain, if the rain drops towards the bigger area than it is sleet. An inference that I have is that more sleet falls near OH than in CHI and IN.
My second observation is that if a droplet of water never goes into the warm air section than it will fall as rain.

PART THREE
My first question that I have is if a drop of rain hits the point of the triangle then would it still be rain of would it be something else.
My second question is could it be snowing and sleeting at the same time.

Dante

2/27/2012 10:01:36 am

Rain can’t turn into snow because if rain freezes it turns into sleet or frozen rain not snow, it has to form in cold air for it to be snow. Snowflakes come when the cloud is in all cold air if it’s not it will turn into rain and rain cannot turn into snow ever. Ice isn’t slippery because unless water is on it, it is dry not slippery. The first observation I made was that if it forms in only war it is rain and if it forms in only cold air it becomes snow the second observation is that rain being formed in warm air then going into cold air can make two different things. My inference is that the cold and warm air must have a huge effect on all weather if it has that much effect on precipitation.
The first question I have is it possible for it to rain then the air gets colder and it snows while it’s raining for a short amount of time. The next question I have is how do you predict things like fog or if it’s going to be cloudy not just precipitation.

Leo $

2/27/2012 10:12:35 am

Inside hail you will find a layer of ice then snow then ice then snow and so on and so forth depending on how big it is. Ice is not slippery because it is a solid and solids are not slippery. One of my observations is that when the rain has less time in the cold air it doesn’t turn into ice. Another is that because the precipitation started in the cold air that it was snow. I infer that there is always rain when the clouds are in the warm air.
I wonder what would happen if there was precipitation when the temperature is 32 degrees? And I would like to know more about the weather thing that Jim discovered. I want to this because I did not
learn them over the trip.

Hannah G

2/27/2012 10:21:21 am

Did you know that a rain drop can't turn into snow? A rain drop can't turn into snow because there is a certain amount of cold air and warm air in the clouds and if they form in the warmer air they aren't going to turn into snow they most likely turn into ice. If you open a piece of hail inside you'll find a layer if ice, than a layer of snow, than a layer of ice, than a layer of snow and than a layer of ice. Its like and union if you think of it. Don't you think that ice is slippery? Well sorry to tell you but ice isn't slippery! Ice isn't slippery because it is sticks to the ground and can turn into water and it has a traction. Snowflakes come from the middle of the cloud in the cooler air.
2 observations I see is that from Indiana on it is rain and no snow because there is warmer air. That New york gets most of the snow. I can infer that Chicago gets a lot of rain because it is in the middle of the country and on the map there is more rain there.

There are some questions that I still have. One of them is has Jim Witt ever been so exact on one of his storms that he knows what time that it will hit the area? My second question is Why do some weathers have to happen with in a certain season. I really want to know that because if the snow happened all years round would it affect the seasons and life as we know it would there be a summer?

Katie Dorn

2/27/2012 10:35:48 am

I’m answering the following two questions -- what do you find inside hail? And, why isn’t ice slippery? What you find inside hail are layers of snow, ice, and rain. Ice isn’t slippery because it is a solid. One quality of solids is that when two solids are together there is friction between them which will keep them from slipping. However, when someone steps on ice, the pressure melts some of the ice which becomes water. That is what you actually slip on. The water, not the ice.
One observation I have from the picture is that the warm air is on the top and the cold air is on the bottom. Another observation is that the first dot from left to right isn’t in the cold air section. I infer the rain line is just rain because it’s not between the diagonal line which shows the rain going through a climate change.
Two questions I still have are what do you dislike about your job and does your job interfere with your family or friends?

Vishwanka

2/27/2012 10:43:09 am

Part 1- Ice isn’t slippery because it sticky. Ice becomes slippery when water is poured onto the ice. What do you find inside hail? - Inside hail you can find all of the layers that the piece of ice went through in the cloud. The first layer would be ice, then snow, then ice, then snow again. Ice isn't slippery unless there is water poured on it. Hail is slippery because the last layer that the hail passes through is the water layer.

Part 2- An observation that I made was when rain from warm air hits cold air, it turn into ice and NEVER into a snowflake. Another observation I made was that the smaller space there is for warm air, the more cold it is in the area. My inference is that the more you go towards the north, the colder it is.

Part 3- A question that I have is: does the higher you go affect how warm the air is?

Ellie

2/27/2012 11:20:57 am

Snowflakes come from the clouds, they would be rain, but before the water has been released from the clouds as rain the cloud produces snow instead, as the actual cloud is under freezing temperature. Inside hailstorm clouds there are different layers, up-drafts, ad down drafts. The hail goes through different layers and the hail accumulates different layers, so when you look inside a hailstone, you’ll see layers of snow and ice.
An observation from the chart is that snow can form when a cloud is at 26 degrees. Another observation is that sleet needs more cold air to form than freezing rain. I can infer that the cold air shown is below freezing.
One question I still have is, how do you define something hat is in between freezing rain and sleet, and not completely either of them? I want to know more because weather doesn’t always fall into specific patterns and there may be an oddball. My last question is how much is an average thickness in the layers of a hailstone? I’d like to know this because if there isn’t an average, you may be able to measure how large a cloud is by looking at the hailstones from it.

Matt m. link

2/27/2012 08:21:57 pm

Part one: a rain drop cannot turn into snow simply because snow is formed in the cold part of the cloud and is always in the cold part but rain is formed in the warm part of the cloud and can turn into ice but not snow. Not all ice is slippery because not all ice has a coat of water, like for example if you get some ice from the freezer it is not slippery, but when you pour water on snow when the tempature is less than thirty-two degrees F it will be slippery.
Part two: one thing that I observed about the picture is that the border of the warm and cold part of the air is diagonal. I used to think that the border was just a line going strait up into space, and you could walk across the lone and it suddenly it becoming warmer. Another observation that I made is that the that the warmer part of the air is larger than the cold part. I infere that there is less snow than any other form of precipitation. I think this because rain can not turn into snow. There is a larger part warm air and snow can only be formed in the cold air, therefor there is less snow than any other form of precipitation.
Part three: one question that I sill have is why does a thunderstorm cloud have different air ways that make the hail go though the different sections like rain, snow and ice? Another question I have is why does the thunder storm cloud have the different layers? The reason that I am wondering about these two question are because my parents asked what we learned on the field trip and told them about the hail, my dad asked about the cloud and he got me wondering.

Leo Rinaldi

2/28/2012 05:03:19 am

Part one. What do you find in hail? In hail we find snow, ice and water. There are layers in the hail, just like an onion. Why can’t a rain drop turn into a snowflake? It can’t because once a cloud is in warm weather it could never change into snow.

Part two. I observed the picture and the cloud and how it has two different sections. It had the warm part and the cold part and it shows different types of weather that might happen.

Part 3 I saw a picture of a hurricane, or a tornado with lightning, sometimes lightning storms can be in tornadoes. How is this possible? If you count up to 5 or 10 seconds after you see lightening before hearing the thunder, that means the storm is about a mile away. Is this really true? How do scientists know this?

Ivan F

2/28/2012 06:59:18 am

A rain drop can’t turn into a snowflake because rain is only water particles that join together to make water droplets. Snow flakes are small ice crystals that form in clouds during winter. Ice isn’t slippery because it’s a solid, it’s friction keeps you from slipping. The reason you slip on ice because it has a thin sheet of water on top which it slippery. If you crack open a hail stone, it’s like an onion inside. Onions have rings in them, hailstones have similar rings. It contains layers of ice and snow compacted together.
Two observations I can make about the picture are 1. Judging by the picture snow can fall when it’s 26 degrees outside,
2. Freezing rain can fall when it’s 28 degrees out side. An inference I can make is that snow only falls under the 45 degree line on the picture. That line resembles where the hot and cold air is. The two questions I have are;
What does sleet consist of? I what to learn more about this because when I touch sleet it feels nothing like snow or rain.
Have any of your weather calendars been wrong? I want to know this because your weather predictions are always right, have they even been wrong?

Claire

2/28/2012 09:23:14 am

In hail, there are a lot of layers inside like an onion. I don’t know the exact order of it, but I know there’s ice, water, and snow (Some of the elements have more than one layer.) 2 things I observed is that they all (“they” meaning rain, freezing rain, and sleet) start in warm air… except for snow. That proves that rain turns into ice NOT snow. I also observed that separation from the warm area and the cold area is slanted. I think that it’s trying to represent some people are closer to the equator, and some people are further from the equator. 2 questions I still have is: 1) How does wind form? 2) Has anyone flown in hailstorm before?

Taylor C.

2/28/2012 09:52:01 am

-Why isn’t ice slippery?
Ice is not slippery because there is no layer of water coating it.
-What do you find inside hail?
Inside hail you find layers similar to an onion. This effect occurs when the ball of hail flies up and down the cloud accumulating layers of ice, water, and snow.

In the chart, I see that the cloud could either be a Cumulonimbus cloud or a Nimbostratus cloud since these clouds are the rainclouds. I also see that the map is spanning west to east with temperatures rising and the precipitation is varying. I infer that the temperature in Pennsylvania is 27 degrees F since it lies between IN and NY which are 28 and 26 degrees respectively.

A question I have is, approximately how long does a chunk of hail remain inside a cloud?

My second question is, how can I tell the difference between a Cumulonimbus cloud and a Nimbostratus cloud?

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