Irish Meteorological Society Forecast Competition

IrishMetSoc

Forecast Contest - try your hand at forecasting the weather

This competition is open to everyone but only one entry is allowed per person. The closing date is September 30th 2009.

Prize = 100 Euro. The winner will be announced at our January public lecture.

And now the questions:::

(1) Maximum temperature in October 2009 *.

(2) Date of the first frost night (Sept – Dec 2009) *.

(3) Maximum wave height at Buoy M4 in October 2009.

(4) Mean monthly temperature at Casement Aerodrome in November 2009.

(5) Number of frost nights at Mullingar in December 2009.

(6) Highest gust (Oct to Dec 2009 inclusive*).

(7) Total rainfall in Valentia in October 2009.

(8) Maximum temperature in Dublin Airport in December 2009.

(9) No of snow days in Oct, Nov, Dec 2009*.

(* means the parameter must be recorded at Met Eireann synoptic and Tucson stations)


Click here to enter:

http://www.irishmetsociety.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=53&Itemid=92

darkman2

Cheers. I must check this out!:)

Mothman

I suggest you list the Tucson stations, becasue I doubt many folks know the extent of the Tucson network. I know I don't but, but I suspect it may be 20 or more stations. It was 13 stations at end of 2006.
Also Tucson stations don't record snow days

IrishMetSoc

We will stick to the stations listed on met.ie