MetLink - online exercises

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World daily hottest, coldest, wettest and windiest places

Exercise 1: plot a map of today's MetLink extremes

Download extremesmap.doc to plot your own data

Click extremesmap020204.doc to see the extremes map on 2 Feb 2004

Automated graphs

Exercise 2: plot climographs of two contrasting locations. Write an explanation.

Daily Reviews with latest weather news, worldwide

Exercise 3: write a brief report on the latest weather news?

Daily image galleries with latest weather pics, worldwide

Exercise 4: choose one image and write about it.

Live weathercam links

Exercise 5: pick your best and worst MetLink weather location and write a brief description and explanation.

Live satellite images

Exercise 6: study each satellite image and write a brief description and explanation.

Live weather movies

Exercise 7: choose one satellite movie and write a brief description and explanation of the weather situation.

UK weather maps

Exercise 8: download uk_map_data.doc and plot your own map eg temperature variations

Click uk_temp_030204.jpg to see UK temperature variations on 3 Feb, 2004

World map of variations eg temperature

Exercise 9: Search the MetLink database and then plot your chosen data eg minimum temperature

Download world_map_data.doc to plot your own map

Excel spreadsheets

Exercise 10: search the MetLink database and donwload an Excel data file eg Radley College

Enter formulae to calculate maximum, minimum and range of temperature, total rainfall

Correlate two sets of data eg pressure and rainfall. Write a brief description and explanation.