CLEVELAND — Welcome to the weather classroom! We're ready to help you learn -- even if schools are currently closed.
3News meteorologist Jason Frazer loves science and doing school visits. Recently, he kicked off an online series helping kids better understand meteorology. He’s going to be doing weather lessons about a variety of topics including wind, temperature, tornadoes and hurricanes. These lessons are geared to children who are 9 years old and older. He welcomes your questions, too. You can e-mail him directly at JFrazer@WKYC.com or you can contact him on Facebook or Instagram at @JasonFrazerTV.
NOTE: Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this story for links to more of Jason's weather lessons.
In today’s lesson, Jason discusses how radar works and how it has been improved over time. Watch below:
Radar helps us identify the location of storms, ships and airplanes. It was originally created as a way to identify ships and airplanes. However, scientists realized that you could also identify weather patterns.
Radar works by sending out pulses that bounce off of the precipitation and are beamed back to the radar site.
A handout for today’s lesson can be found here:
Do you have a question or topic you’d like to see Jason discuss? Send him an email to JFrazer@WKYC.com or send him a message on Facebook.com/JasonFrazerTV
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