Exercise 3.1
Note down the weather report from a local newspaper for two weeks and observe the changes occurring in the weather.
The book prints no answer for this
NCERT publishes no answers for this textbook, so there is nothing in the book to check this working against. It has also not yet been read through by hand.
What this asks for
What a good answer must contain
Copy the daily weather report from a local newspaper for fourteen days, then describe how the weather changed.
How to set it out
One row per date, with a column for each element of weather the chapter lists: temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and, if the paper prints it, atmospheric pressure.
A worked example of one row (sample figures, not a real reading)
| Date | Max temp | Min temp | Rainfall | Humidity | Wind |
| $\displaystyle 12$ Aug | $\displaystyle 31$°C | $\displaystyle 25$°C | $\displaystyle 18$ mm | $\displaystyle 88$% | from the west |
All fourteen rows, copied honestly, with the newspaper's name and date.
Three or four lines at the end saying what changed and what stayed the same — which element swung the most, whether rainy days were cooler (the chapter says rain lowers the temperature of a place), whether humid days felt uncomfortable.
One line naming the wind by the direction it blows from — a wind from the west is a westerly.
A reminder that two weeks of readings show weather, not climate: climate is the average over thirty years or more.