The Weather Station
By using the YHGfL Weather Station resources, you can be assured of access to reliable data and the opportunity to compare them across the UK.
Learning about the weather station components
The Weather station application provides a numbered diagram to illustrate and describe each component, helping children to understand the elements included in collecting data for weather monitoring.
How do computers help with weather forecasting?
Recording and monitoring weather data is essential to weather forecasting. Alongside the data collection, we rely on the Met Office ‘supercomputer’ to do all the ‘number crunching’: 2,560,000,000,000 operations per second!
It was in 1922 that Lewis Fry-Richardson published his paper which became the basis for modern forecasting - ‘Weather Prediction by Numerical Process’. At the time it was of course impractical, due to the lack of sufficiently fast computing power. Richardson himself calculated that if over 60,000 people worked round the clock, they would be unlikely to calculate a prediction before the weather actually arrived.
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