Facts about our weather station on the roof of the Erving Elementary School, 28 Northfield Road, Erving, MA
Erving Elementary School Weather Report
. Weather data from the Erving Elementary School
roof is displayed on a console and on a computer in
our lab. Information from our weather station is
also uploaded to our school web site every five
minutes so that everyone can see it on the web.
Our Erving Elementary School Weather Station is a
Davis -Weather
Monitor II. The Weather Monitor II is a
powerful computer weather station that can monitor
wind speed, direction and wind chill. It will also
track the barometric trend along with inside
humidity and inside and outside temperature.
In this picture you can get a sense of how big the
weather station is. The anemometer is right next to
Christa's head. I measures wind direction and wind
speed. The large black object in front of Dawn is
the rain gauge. It measures rainfall. The
temperature, barometer and humidity sensors are in
the ribbed white metal box under the rain
gauge.
The weather station is fastened to the side of the
gym roof.
The sensors up on the roof feed their information
to this device, a Davis Weather Monitor II. It has
a display for just about everything.
Here we are testing the weather station with a
computer. Information from the Weather Monitor II
is transmitted to the computer when it can be
stored and analyzed. The computer is very useful
for making graphs of weather data over time.
Installation in progress.
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