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A thanks to the locals of the weather forum!

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  • 04-11-2012 8:53pm
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    Trotter
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    Lads & Ladies I just wanted to say thanks to you all because over the last couple of years, especially in Winter, I've learned a serious amount about charts, forecasting and weather in general from the forum.

    Im a primary teacher and a few weeks ago, I was covering the area of weather with my class of 10/11 year olds. Thankfully I have an interactive whiteboard so I was able to show them animated charts and explain what was going on. I showed them links I'd learned about here such as raintoday and sat24 etc and they were enthralled by it all. I sent them off to do a short and medium term forecast then and by all accounts, a number of parents were forced to watch a lot of weather forecasts at home (to make sure they were right.. not to copy them so Im told :D)

    We predicted the weather for the next 4 hours and then matched the outside 'realities' to our predictions and we didn't do too bad at all!

    So there's 30 young people now with a curiosity about the weather that may lead to the next famous meteorologist, or indeed famous postman. I didnt teach them much, but just enough that made them curious to find out more when the mood does take them.

    So.. Thanks! Keep up the good work!


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    Rougies
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    Teaching.
    You're doing it right.


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    jeltz
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    Sounds like great fun. :)


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    whiteandlight
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    Good work! I'm a maths teacher so I don't get to cover the weather but during the big snow I used temperature charts and readings for statistics and we compared averages and ranges of temperatures using the real data. With the senior cycle I used weather force casting and modelling in discussion about probability! Lots of fun :)


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