Weather Project - 8th Grade
Where is your city? Look for its location in the US on Google maps . For its zip code check out the USPS site.
Is your city urban, suburban, or rural? What is its population? MapStats has its population and more (some of your weather statistics are here).
Is there industry in your city? Make it easy for yourself. Look at city-data. Scroll down on the page and it has a graph of occupations and industries. The webpage has divided them by sex. Isn't that very strange for this day and age? Does it make you question the validity of this webpage?
Yahoo Real Estate will give you a quick neighborhood profile. Shopping & restaurants included.
State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates has a lot of information - maybe, too much.
Weather?
Weatherbase has averages of temperatures, snowfall, rain, etc.
World Meteorological Organization for world weather
Weather.com has a world weather website.
The United States Climate Page will lead you to the Daily Mean Maximum and Minimum Temperatures and the Daily Mean Precipitation and Snowfall. There are also links to
Daily % chance precipitation, wind speed and % sunshine
Monthly anomalies 1961-1990
Monthly means 1961-1990
Anomalies are things out of the norm. If you are looking for major weather incidents, look at the monthly anomaly charts.
Since the United States Climate Page only covers through 1990 you might want to try the following. Use the statistics you obtained from MapStats for the basics. Or Weather Underground (which also covers international weather locations) - enter your city. Half way down the results page there is a box with History & Almanac. Click on Seasonal Weather averages for information about temperatures and snow.
Weather.com for a comparison chart!
Sunny days?
Building for weather? - Weather and structures
New Ideas for "green" insulation
The San Francisco Exploratorium has advice on building in earthquake areas.
The USGS also has advice for Building Safer Structures.
More about building to withstand an earthquake. (Try page 5.)
Home Improvement Radio Show has recommendations to build to fight hurricane damage.
Home Hurricane Protection Tips
How can you floodproof your building? FEMA has advice.
More floodproofing advice.
And more dry floodproofing advice.
Protecting your home from flood damage.
Do you need a safe room during a tornado?
Tornado PreparednessLightning Protection Systems - Scroll down on this page
Protect your home from lightning.
Protect your home or business from a disaster - earthquake, flood, or high winds.
Protect yourself and your home from severe winter storms.
Pollutio
n? Air? Water?
What kind? How bad is it? Scorecard claims to be a pollution information site. Here is a series of maps from them. Here is a way to see pollution by zipcode.
The government website AirNow gives you a map showing today's hazards.
The New York Times will help you find Water Polluters Near You.
EPA National Water Quality by state- It is 12 years old, but has a lot of information
More than you want to know about your city with the most current information can be found by putting the zip code of your city in in the box next to MyEnvironment and the U.S. Environment Protection Agency page.
Is your city in an area of the country hit by major weather incidents? USA Today has a great map showing the natural disasters areas in the United States. READ the 2 sentences at the top of the map describing the disaster and its season. For earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados you can also look at this map.
Drought? Check out the U.S. Drought Monitor map.
National Hurricane Center - Seasons, frequency, and where they occur.
Specific earthquake information can be obtained by putting information (just the Country & State will do) into the the form located at the National Geophysical Data Center. It also has a tsunami database, but you must be careful because you are entering different information than for earthquakes.
Map to pinpoint many climate or geographic conditions such as Lightning
Blizzards? Lake effect? What are they? The Weather Channel can help.
More info on blizzards from the U.S. Search & Rescue Task Force.
Chicago - snowfall
Minneapolis - snowfall
Denver - snowfall
Can't find your natural disaster? Try here. U.S. Hazards Assessment
Crops? Not an easy way to find them but here are a large group of maps from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). If you click on the gif's here at the USDA census publications, crop maps will appear.