Kid Meteorology Ask Dave a weather question

Dave Thurlow, Host

 
Hi I'm Dave Thurlow and today on the Weather Notebook we have kids asking, and answering, a weather question.

"My name is Charlotte and I want to know how the meteorologist knows it's going to rain?"

How does the meteorologist know when it's going to rain. Well, here's a song from a cassette of science songs sung by kids in Ohio to answer our question. So gather the offspring around the ol' Motorola and listen to a song about weather. For kids and by kids.

"They check the air pressure just to see If it is low or high, For low air pressure means that Water vapor is on the rise.

Dark clouds will form -- they'll get real big And cover our great skies, And rain or snow will fall because Low pressure's the reason why"

Do-do-do-do-do..So the meteorologist knows it's going to rain, when the air pressure is low. Low pressure, lousy weather.

Thanks to Kim Thompson and Karen Hilderbrand at Twin Sister Productions in Akron Ohio, for writing and producing the music you just heard, and for bringing a bunch of kids together to sing it.

If you'd like to purchase the "I'd like to be a meteorologist cassette with 12 great weather songs for kids, go to mountwashington.org. Our show is funded by Subaru, the beauty of all wheel drive, with major support provided by the National Science Foundation.