Weather Forecasting and its Importance

Scientists try to predict, or forecast, what the ______ will be like over the next few days.

Farmers need help to decide when to plough their land and sow and harvest their ______.

The captain of a ship might not want to set sail if there was going to be a bad ______.

A weather forecast includes information about temperature, rainfall, wind, cloud, and ______.

Symbols are used on the map to show the weather in different ______.

Every day, all over the world, hundreds of weather forecasts are given out on television and ______.

Weather forecasts are given for continents, countries, or local ______.

The information to produce the weather forecasts comes from ships, aircraft, weather balloons, and weather ______ all over the world.

Satellites continuously photograph the Earth's surface from ______.

Weather scientists, called meteorologists, analyse all the information about the weather using ______.

What do the symbols on the weather map show?Every day, all over the world, hundreds of weather forecasts are given out on television and ______.

Some telephone companies also provide ______.

Small weather stations record lots of details about the ______ weather.

Satellites continuously photograph the Earth's surface from ______.