Measuring the weather

Think

Starter

Why is it important that we can measure the weather?

Write

Activities

Rain Gauge at Refuge d'Espingo, French Pyrenees
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Weather instruments

Copy and complete the following table.

Weather InstrumentDiagram / ImageDefinitionInstructions on how to use the instrument
Rain Gauge
Maximum-Minimum Thermometer
Hygrometer
(Wet and dry bulb thermometer)
Whirling Psychrometer
Barometer
Anemometer
Wind Vane
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Stevenson screens

Stevenson Screen at Refuge d'Espingo, French Pyrenees
Inside a Stevenson Screen
Inside a Stevenson Screen

Complete the following questions as a way of making notes about Stevenson Screens.

  1. What is a Stevenson Screen?
  2. How should a Stevenson Screen be sited?
  3. Download the image of the inside of a Stevenson Screen (above). Label all the instruments.
  4. Use the internet to produce a quote for equiping a Stevenson Screen with traditional equipment (i.e. not electronic). Get prices and include web addresses of the suppliers.