CLEVELAND — Welcome to the weather classroom! We're ready to help you learn!
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 talks about tornadoes. During the lesson, Jason teaches you how you can make your own tornado at home and what steps you need to take to make you’re prepared for a Tornado.
Tornadoes are violent columns of air that rotate upward. Researchers are still trying to determine why tornadoes form and why they take the direction they do. However, scientists believe their development may have something to do with the updrafts found in thunderstorms and wind shear.
The most common places for tornadoes are in "Tornado Alley," but they can happen anywhere at any time. Each year, the United States sees on average 1,200 - 1,300 tornadoes.
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.
Our next topic is hurricanes (expect that lesson Monday, April 6).
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