A weather station can also supply you some quiescent time to get other tasks completed or can allow you the opportunity to have a quiet cup of tea. The equipment that you will require are easily found at the garden store, crafts store, or hobby store. After you get the hang of the tools you will be using you can even have a go at constructing your own electronic instrumentation.
What does it mean?
As you and your kids go about monitoring the readings that come from your equipment you may notice that the weather conditions outside change as the readings change. If you are able to keep a chart of the readings make a note of what the weather is like from a visual perspective and what happened the next day. After a while you may notice that if a certain string of numbers show up, the weather is likely to change like before.
How weather works.
Before you start collecting all the tools and instrumentation for your backyard weather station it is a good idea to have some idea of how weather works. In this way you can gauge where and how to set-up and use the instruments while assessing what you may want to add to the station as the kids and adults learn....