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 the importance of the sun in our climate, how sundogs and pillars form. Watch below:
The sun is about 4.5 billion years old. Scientists estimate it has about another 5 billion years left until it burns out.
The sun emits a variety of different radiation. Some of that radiation helps to heat the earth, create clouds and impacts our weather in a big way.
Depending on the clouds we see in the sky, we can have a variety of different things created by the sun including sundogs, pillars and halos.
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 e-mail at JFrazer@WKYC.com or send him a message on Facebook.com/JasonFrazerTV.
MORE WEATHER LESSONS FROM JASON:
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