What is the name of your station?

Geography, section III

Section I. Station Description Questions (10 points total) 1. What is the name of your station? (.5 pt) 2. In what city and state is your station located (provide absolute location (lat/long). (.5 pt) 3. What direction does your thermometer face (N, S, E, W, SE, NW, etc)? (.5 pt) 4. Please describe the terrain around your weather station. (1 pt) 5. Are their any obstructions near your weather station? If so, please describe them and their distance to your station. (.5 pt) 6. Where is Athens, Georgia located provide absolute location (lat/long)? (1 pt) 7. What terrain would you expect to find there? (1 pt) 8. What kind of climate would you expect to find there? (2pts) 9. Weather Project Photo (3 pts) Section II Data Analysis Questions (30 points total) In this section of your paper, copy and paste the tables and charts you made from excel for each of the five weeks. Remember you have 10 graphs and 10 tables total with precipitation and temperature data (1 table and 1 graph for each week for your station, and 1 table and 1 graph for each week for the Athens, Georgia station). Make sure each table and graph has a proper title stating the week and date of each graph. After you have cut and pasted the graphs, type in your answers to the following questions below them. 1. 10 points total (2 points per week for graphs and tables) a. Week 1 table and graph: October 3, 2016 – October 9, 2016 (2pts) b. Week 2 table and graph: October 10, 2016 – October 16, 2016 (2pts) c. Week 3 table and graph: October 17, 2016 – October 23, 2016 (2pts) d. Week 4 table and graph: October 24, 2016 – October 30, 2016 (2pts) e. Week 5 table and graph: October 31, 2016 – November 6, 2016 (2pts) 1. What was the temperature range for Week 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5, at your station? Range is defined as the difference between the highest and lowest temperature. (3 pts) 2. What was the temperature range at your station for the period of record (October 3, 2016 – November 6, 2016)? Take the highest temperature and lowest temperature of that time period and report the difference. (3 pts) 3. What was the temperature range at the Athens station for the 5 weeks? (2 pts) 4. What was the average temperature at your station? Add all temperature readings and divide by the number of readings you took. For example, you can put all your temperature readings in one column on excel and compute the average in the excel program. (3pts) 5. What was the average temperature at the Athens station for the period of record? (3pts) 6. How many days did your station have precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc) for the period of record? (1 pt) 7. How many days did the Athens station have precipitation for the period of record? (1 pt) 8. What was the maximum, minimum, and average precipitation at your station for the period of record (October 3, 2016 – November 6, 2016)?? ( 2 pts) 9. What was the maximum, minimum, and average precipitation at the Athens station for the period of record (October 3, 2016 – November 6, 2016)? (2 pts) Section III Short Answer (10 points total) 1. Did your station experience any cold or warm fronts? If so, how many of each? How did you reach this conclusion? (2 pts) 2. Did the Athens station experience any cold or warm fronts? If so, how many of each? How did you reach this conclusion? (2 pts) 3. Did your station and the Athens station experience weather changes on the same dates? Why do you think this occurred? Do you see a pattern in the data collected between your station and the Athens station? (3 pts) 4. What type of air masses do you think affected your station? What type of air masses do you think affected the Athens station? How did you reach this conclusion? (3 pts)