Winter Safety

With the recent snow and winter weather, the girls have learned a bit about winter safety and fun facts.

At http://kids.askacop.org/thecoldestday.html they read a story and had to "be the detective" to answer a couple questions.

And at http://parents.askacop.org/frostbite.html they learned about frostbite.

At NOAA's National Weather Service website they learned about winter weather safety, and what to do in certain situations. http://noaa.kids.us/winter.htm

We also printed out a booklet that included some interesting facts. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/owlie-winter.pdf

In the above mentioned booklet, we learned that:

In the Antarctic, there is a 30-30-30 rule. When the temperature is 30 below, and the wind is 30 miles per hour, a person can live only 30 minutes outside.

We also learned what windchill means and how it is calculated.

Other interesting facts from the booklet:

• The lowest temperature in the United States was -79.8*F at Prospect Creek Camp in the Endicott Mountains of northern Alaska on January 23, 1971.

• Aside from Alaska, the coldest temperature was -69.7*F in Rogers Pass, Montana, on January 20, 1954.

• One storm from February 13-19, 1959, dumped 189 inches of snow at Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl, California.

• The greatest snowfall in 24 hours in the United States was at Silver Lake, Colorado, on April 14-15, 1921, 75.8 inches.

• The most snow in the U.S. in one month--390 inches (32.5 feet) fell at Tamarack, California, in January 1911.

• In the winter of 1971-72, 93.5 feet (1,122 inches) of snow fell at the Rainier Paradise Ranger Station in the state of Washington.

Wow!