Assignment 8
Today's Objectives:
1. Understand what information you can obtain from a weather web site.
2. Demonstrate the ability to get the weather from a weather site.
DIRECTIONS: You are going to visit the site www.weather.com. In order to visit the site, you must click on the address line and type www.weather.com. This will take you to that site. Print this page to work from.
At the top of www.weather.com, you will see a box that looks like this
You will need to single-click in the white box next to Enter city or US zip: After you enter one of those two things, you will need to single-click on the word GO next to the white box at www.weather.com.
This will give you the weather. You can navigate through this site to see what other services they can provide you for free.
Please list the:
1. Current weather in Port Huron?
2. Current weather in Dallas?
3. Current weather in Miami?
4. Current weather in Big Rapids?
5. What is the forecast for tomorrow?
6. What other services can www.weather.com offer you? There are many. You can easily spend hours exploring this sight. One useful feature is predicting the weather on a long trip. Find the links on your page (Under "Driving and Traffic" in the Other Services Information Bar near the top of the page. Then select Interstate Driving Forecast.
In your section of the country of interest notice that the major highways are color coded. The legend at the top of the map describes how the colors indicate road conditions. Scroll beneath the map and notice that all of the N-S and E-W highways are listed. Open the link on a major highway. Notice that major cities along the highway are noted and you can get the 10 day forecast for your cities of choice.
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