From weather observations to weather forecast
Tour of the Met Office - multimedia presentation
A multimedia presentation showing how the Met Office takes weather observations, combines them with modelled data and produces weather forecasts.
What's the weather like today?
A short activity to raise learners' awareness of the difference between weather information and weather data.
The story of a weather forecast
An activity based around the Tour of the Met Office – multimedia presentation. The challenge is for learners to create an easy-to-understand description of how a weather forecast is produced.
Coding the weather
An activity that asks learners to construct a text message that gives details of current weather conditions in no more than 25 characters.
Weather web page challenge
This activity aims to give learners a flavour of the process of transforming coded weather data into a user-friendly information product.