Blizzard

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "General Information" questions on your handout.

1. What is a blizzard?

• http://www.ussartf.org/blizzards.htm (Scroll down to the section titled "What is a blizzard?")

2. Where and when can blizzards form?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzards (Scroll down to the section titled "Geography")
• http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212082/blizsea.htm (Great map!)

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Formation" questions on your handout.

3a. How do blizzards form?

• http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/dangerwx/blizzard3.htm

3b. Draw how snow forms in the box below.

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/winter_storms.htm

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "Damage" questions on your handout.

4. What kind of damage can blizzards create?

• http://www.ussartf.org/blizzards.htm (Click under the section titled "What makes blizzard Dangerous?)

5. Name a previous blizzard that had a devastating impact?  When and where did it occur?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blizzards_in_the_United_States (Click on a link to read about a previous blizzard that happened in the U.S.)

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Safety" questions on your handout.

6. How do meteorologists (weather scientists) predict its formation? 

7. How can people keep safe from a blizzard?

• http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/dangerwx/blizzard5.htm