After we've decided that to focus on weather study this term, we started back at the beginning of the topic and looked at weather in general.
As we have been familiarising ourselves recently with information from the Met Office, we decided to find out more about what they do:
and how they create a weather forecast:
as well as what a meteorologist might do:
The weather has significant impact on human activities, as we learnt here and here. Since knowing about the weather is so important, we thought we ought to approach the topic properly, i.e. to start by checking with the Met Office what the basic components required to make our own weather station are:
- a rain gauge - we've made that!
- a wind vane
- a thermometer
- a weather diary
Going through the list of the basic components for a weather station, we still need to make our own wind vane and use a thermometer to measure the daily temperature. Although we can use the dry bulb thermometer from our hygrometer for this purpose, we wanted to do an easy experiment so we made the water thermometer.
Next up was the weather vane to measure the wind direction.
It has been very windy here these days, so it didn't take long to see the wind vane at work:
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