Sources of information and graphics: Weather, The Nature Company Discoveries Library 1996 Weather, The Nature Company Guides 1996 The Weather Guide, Hamlyn 1969 Charlie Brown's Second Super Book if Questions and Answer, Random House 1977 Childcraft :World and Space, World Book-Childcraft International, Inc. 1981 Explorers : Weather, Dorling Kinderseley 1992 Programs used to create and test this site: FrontPage Express 2.02, Microsoft Photoshop 5.0 for Windows, Adobe Photoshop 3.0 for MacOS, Adobe Custom fonts used in this site: Verdana OCR A Extended And last but not least, the people who organized this competition: ThinkQuest In this site, we used many abbreviations for system of measurements, weight, density, temperature and so forth. Here is a list of these systems: Measurements ft foot 0.3048 m m metre 39.4 inches Mass kg kilogram 2.205 pounds Temperature °F Fahrenheit (1.8 X °C ) + 32° °C Celsius (°F / 1.8) - 32° K Kelvin °C + 273.15 Metric Prefixes Water boils at 100 °C and freezes at 0 °C . da deca 10 h hecto 10 2 k kilo 10 3 M mega 10 6 d deci 10 -1 centi c 10 -2 mili m 10 -3 This site is an entry to the 1999 ThinkQuest competition by Team 26804. The team members are :   Ryan Participant Age: 17 years Occupation: Student, SMK Bukit Bandaraya Comments: Weather is something interesting. It adds 'flavour' to this world!   Roy Participant Age: 15 years Occupation: Student, SMK Bukit Bandaraya Comments: Whether you like weather or not, you can't run away from it!   Lim Yen Chung Coach Age: 46 years Occupation: Engineer Comments: A very interesting experience.   Clara Coach Age: 19 years Occupation: Student Comments: An eye opener and I didn't know that putting up an educational site was that complicated! We are all just ordinary people living in a not so ordinary world where weather is talked about so much yet many of us don't know much about it. Here we try to explain it to everyone thought possible. The introduction on us in the previous table is kind of factual. Probably you all need to know about us more. First of all we come from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur is the biggest city in Malaysia and is the legislative, judicial and financial capital of Malaysia. The administrative capital would be in Putrajaya (listed as the first intelligent city in the Guinness Book Of Records), somewhere south of KL(this is how we call Kuala Lumpur). Malaysians speak Malay, English (as in English spelling, American accent and Malaysian vocabulary), Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka), Indian (Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujerati) and many tribal languages. Malaysia is a very beautiful country. If you've heard about or been to Singapore, you should know what KL is like. It's hot, humid, yet it's comfortable. Home to the tallest building in the world. In a country where we try to do things superlatively, as it is part of our culture, we also have many other superlatives. Malaysians are pretty friendly people. Tourism plays a vital role in our country's economy. Our thick lush evergreen jungles, dark mysterious caves and sandy white beaches are among the most protected on Earth. To get a quick look of Malaysia, just dig through your collection of National Geographics. Malaysia is featured in the August 1997 issue, though not even one, no not one, magazine or book can describe Malaysia's charm. Its culture, its friendliness, its freedom (yes we are free, not as some people think and claim), its uniqueness, its weirdness, its colour, its light, its language, its people and its climate. We have rain all year round (no, it doesn't rain 24 hours a day), so we don't have to build so many water processing plants. We only need 1 type of clothing - summer wear because we only experience 1 season throughout the whole year. Anything in this entry may be reproduced with acknowledgement or permission from Team 26804.