MetLink International Project

Mr. Hayden's T-Th Physical Science Class at the Community Education Center in Pasadena, California, USA is participating in the MetLinkInternational Project for the third year.

The goal of ‘MetLinkInternational’ is that participants make and exchange weather observations once a day for two weeks and, with the help and guidance of meteorological professionals, analyze and interpret those observations. The project is internet-based, and is sponsored by the Royal Meteorological Society in the United Kingdom.

The intention of MetLinkInternational is that we will:

1. Use the Internet to enhance our weather studies;
2. Record weather data daily over a two-week period;
3. Use the Internet to exchange the data with others;
4. Use e-mail to interact with volunteer meteorological professionals;
5. Develop weather projects, plot graphs and compare results with others;
6. Write articles about weather events.


The objectives are that we will become able to:

1. Relate clouds and weather to the current synoptic situation and to satellite imagery;
2. Observe and record weather systematically;
3. Present weather data by appropriate statistical means;
4. Account for differences of weather from place to place in terms of latitude, distance from the sea, altitude and other factors;
5. Account for weather phenomena in terms of the processes involved.

Our Weather Observations

Our raw data in metric format:
Date, time, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, current temperature, humidity, precipitation intensity, wind direction, wind speed, pressure, pressure tendency, cloud cover.

31/01/03 08:30 23.0 16.0 23.0 24.0 none none 0.0 NE 1.0 1019.8
rising 1

30/01/03 11:30 27.0 13.0 27.0 19.0 0. 0 SW 1.0 1021.2 falling 0


29/01/03 11:00 19.0 9.0 19.0 46.0 0. 0 E 4.0 1022.4 falling 0


28/01/03 09:00 16.0 12.0 16.0 --- 0 0 NE 2.0 1018.9 rising 4


27/01/03 11:30 25.0 15.0 25.0 24.0 0 0 SE 3.0 1018.6 falling 4



Weather photo link: http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/org/member/cloudtrackers

Project Schedule

The MetLink active phase will run from 27 January to 7 February, 2003 and again from 10-14 March, 2003 in conjunction with Project Atmosphere Australia as part of UK National Science Week.

1. Contact Phase (January, 2003)
Participants establish email contact and exchange information.

2. Weather Active Phase One (27 Jan to 7 Feb, 2003)
Daily weather recordings into MetLink weather database

Weather Active Phase Two (10-14 March, 2003)
Participants may continue contact (see list of participants)
Email Weather Contacts to answer particular weather questions

3. Weather Project Phase (Feb & March, 2003)
Participants present data, graphs, maps, weather projects, articles and exchange with other schools.

Email us:
realweather1@yahoo.com