Thursday, October 14, 2010

NHCS Weather Station

Mrs. Sawicki has set up a weather station for our school!! She got the funding for the weather equipment from the New Hampton Conservation Commission with the help of local resident Pat Schlesinger. Mr. Sawicki from Winnepesauke Electric helped with the wiring and installation. Plymouth State University donated an old computer and the Sawickis supplied the peripherals. Steve Gunn, a weather enthusiast from Bristol, helped with the free software and the link to the Weather Underground, where our collected data will be reported out to the whole world. What an amazing community effort!!

If you're interested in seeing our data, here's the link for our weather station. If it's just the current conditions or the forecast you want, look in the sidebar over here ---> or on the home page of the NHCS website.

Fourth graders will continue to report the morning weather conditions and the daily forecast to all our classrooms - but when they do, they'll be using up-to-the-minute information collected right here at our school. How's that for a real-world application of technology? Thanks to all the people who made that happen!

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