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ASSIGNMENT NO.1
Assignment No. 1 is to simply introduce you to the Internet and send a reply
by e-mail. Please keep a notebook of all the material you have completed.
Go to NETSCAPE
Go to OPEN and type in http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/1894/index.html
This will get you Good's Home Page.
Go down to Weather and Climate (block on upper left) and click
Click on Real Time Weather from GSU .
Answer questions about weather elements shown on the display
1. Time and Date
2. Current Temperature
3. Minimum/Maximum temperature
4. Wind direction and speed
5. Barometric pressure
6. Relative humidity current
7. Minimum/Maximum relative humidity and when
8. Precipitation (if any)
Hit back and go to Weather Channel.
Click Maps (icon on top of page)Click on map type (left side). Choose a weather map (satellite, radar, specialty, etc.)
9. Describe what you see. Does this resemble stuff you've seen before on television?
Hit back and go to Pat's Weather Page from WTOC-TV, Savannah.
Go down to Forecasts. Click on local
Click on one of the counties.
10. What did you click on?
11. What did you find?
Go down and click on NWS Charleston. Click on anything
12. Explain what you clicked on?.
Go back to to Good's Weather and Climate Page and click on GaSoU/NWS
13. What is the current temperature?
Go back to Good's Weather and Climate and click on one of the links
14. A. Give address and title
15. Summary of Site
16. Opinion of site
E-Mail answers to Good at [email protected]