Introduction

Your group is a part of a sailboat race committee in charge of running races for the winter frostbite series in Annapolis, Maryland.  There have  been growing concerns about the safety of the racers and race committee due to the weather.  Just think about the weather conditions that the Andrea Gail experienced in the Perfect Storm. 
 
 

To accomplish the task, your group of three needs to :

1.  Decide on who will be the task manager, keyboarder,  and recorder. 

2.   Learn about the importance of windchill at the windchill cartoon, windchill facts sheet and "What is windchill?".

3.  Learn about the Beaufort scale at Stormfax, windwave and  Beaufort information.

4.  As a group, create a windchill cart using the windchill calculator

The recorder will be responsible for  writing the final copy to be turned in at the end of this activity.

5.  As a group, determine what unacceptable weather conditions would be for racing and write a report to the yacht club that will be presented at their monthly race committee meeting.  The task manager will be responsible for writing the final copy to be turned in at the end of this activity.

6.  As a group, select two other areas of the world, experiencing cold weather.  Use the weather maps and report if conditions are unacceptable for racing using the above reports to support your reasoning.  The keyboarder will be responsible for writing the final copy to be turned in at the end of this activity.
 
 
 

Your grade will be based on the following rubric.  Please look at your particular report for specific details.
 

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary  4	Score
Windchill chart	1 of the 4 criterion are present	2 or the 4 criterion are present	3 of the 4 criterion are present.	1. Proper title, labels, keys are included 2.  You have at least 100 pieces of data in chart 3.  Temp. and wind speed are in reasonable increments 4.  Temps. and wind speeds are reasonable
Unacceptable weather conditions report	1 of the 4 criterion present	2 of the 4 criterion present	3 of the 4 criterion present	1.  Describes wind conditions unacceptable for racing  and supports opinion with research 2.  Describes temperature conditions unacceptable for racing and supports opinion with research 3.  Describes windchill conditions unacceptable for racing  and supports opinion with research 4.  Uses correct spelling, grammar and sentence structure
Weather report for 2 other areas	1 of the 4 criterion present	2 of the 4 criterion present	3 of the 4 criterion present	1.  Includes location, temperature with correct units, wind conditions with correct units 2.  Makes a decision to race or not race and supports decision with unacceptable weather conditions report and windchill chart 3.  Uses locations with a temperature of 50 F or below 4.  Does 2 locations

Congratulations, you have just completed your report.  You have learned how to complete and analyze a table about windchill. You may want to do additional research about the perfect storm of 1991.  Here is a link that will help you . www.perfectstorm.net (click "skip introduction" and click on the topics that interest you.)  You may want to read the book "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger.  For more weather information, take a look at infoplease.

Here is a list of sites that was used to develop this webquest:
www.r-p-r.com/windchill.htm
www.r-p-r.com/index.html
www.r-p-r.com/beaufort.htm
www.srh.noaa.gov/elp/wxcalc/windchill.html
www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/cd/factsheets/windchill/index_e.cfm
www.stormfax.com/beaufort.htm
marine.cwb.gov.tw/CWBMMC/windwaveE.html
www.weather.com/intl/
www.infoplease.com/weather.htm
www.perfectstorm.net
javascript.internet.com/calculators/wind-chill.html