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Geog123   book 2    pages 24-25   2.2 Measuring the weather

 

Weather web project

  • As part of your web-page project, one page could be a feature on one weather instrument. Use the images on this page, or find more of your own, and information from books, or the sites featured here, to add your notes about them.

  • The school automatic weather station is located on the roof of 'B' block, attached to the side of the water tank wall.

Measuring the weather in MS Word 

  1. Geog.123  2.2 pages 24-25 qns.1 & 2

 

 

The maximum-minimum thermometer

 

Staffordshire School Weather Site has notes and pictures on recording the weather - excellent site.

Meteorological Office Singapore site on weather instruments is a very useful page, which actually shows you how to make simple versions of most weather instruments. the site also has a mine of information covering S.E.Asia.

 

 

The barometer, to measure air pressure

 

 

 

Iceni Weather Station, Royston, Cambridgeshire this is a fabulous site, not only with loads of weather data over many years (climate) but also excellent picture of inside and outside of a Stevenson Screen, with its thermometers .... go to About.....Royston (Iceni) Weather Station... and for the picture of a rain gauge opposite, and how it works  Royston Weather Rain Page. 

 

 

1. Weather and climate

2. Measuring the weather 

3. Types of rainfall 

4. Air pressure and air masses 

5. Weather web pages  

6. Hurricanes 

7. Satellites and forecasting 

8. Climates and people 

 

Year 8 work

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