Weather and climate data and resources to support schools making their own observations.
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borrow an instrument
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Top 10 ideas for weather fieldwork
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Automatic weather stations
Weather Observations Website (WOW)
Met Office data (past UK)
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Cloud Wheel
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cloud key
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Does rain come from dark clouds?
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NCAR Cloud viewer
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Cloud Puzzle
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Guide to launching weather balloons
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Weather observing
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Guide to observing
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Will it Snow?
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Measure the weather
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fieldwork
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Old Weather Project
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Beaufort Scale
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experiments & demos
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Weather for Schools
Other Useful Links
- Investigating weather through fieldwork from Teaching Geography, 2013
- Met Office Weather Observations Website (WOW) – anyone can submit their UK weather observations, or see the observations submitted by others.
- Met Office Design and Technology resources to build your own weather station: Anemometer Project – Student version,
Rain Gauge Project – Student version,
- Help and hints for weather observing.
- Projects based on using weather stations & instruments.
- Simple Weather Measurements and how to make them
- More advanced information for observers from the RMetS site
- Converting Units
- Other useful sources of climate data, weather data and satellite images
- Ideas for science, environment or weather clubs .
- The OPAL cloud chart
- Where to purchase a weather tree for recording daily weather observations through a year with a supporting article from Weather magazine.