Teachers, Here are free science lessons for your students
Weather technology company Weatherstem is making its educational material free through the end of May. The Florida-based company, which specializes in products such as remote weather observation stations, wants to help teachers and students who are attending class from home amid concerns about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Largo’s 6 Weatherstem Stations Warn When Bad Weather’s On Way
To keep residents informed when bad weather on its way, Largo Fire Rescue has installed new web-based Weatherstem weather stations at its six fire stations. The Weatherstem stations offer real-time weather information data and a live video feed from the station. Residents can also see time-lapse video from the station’s cameras.
Appalachian State Uses Weatherstem App to Help Protect Students
While most apps take 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or even an hour to update, Weatherstem is constantly measuring real-time conditions and putting them in the palm of your hand. “Getting that real-time data is very key to the success of our program and keeping our student-athletes safe, and our students,” says Appalachian State Senior Associate Athletics Director Jon Mitchell. “It gives you the opportunity to see what the wind is, what the temperature is, whether that’s on the ground, in the air, or wherever it might be. It gives you that real data that’s right then, at that minute, at that time. This is really huge, especially for what we utilize. One of the aspects for us, for heat, we can see what we’re getting at that wet bulb temperature to see if our student-athletes are safe, or if we have to modify practice or cancel practice.”
Weatherstem station in Sumter makes science class more interactive
A Weatherstem Station at Alice Drive Middle School in Sumter is making weather lessons more hands-on for the students. The station is located on the roof of the school and provides local weather information such as temperature, wind speed and direction, pressure, sky cover, and more.
GIMS weather station is for students, community
The island has its own weather station now, thanks to a Grosse Ile Middle School school science teacher Jason Raupp, his principal, and a generous grant from the Grosse Ile Educational Foundation. Island residents (and everyone else) can get live weather updates from the station at http://wayne.weatherstem.com/grosseile. The website offers temperature, wind speed and direction, barometer readings, humidity levels, live cloud shots and whole lot of other weather-related information.
Weatherman Jim Cantore visits Vermont alma mater
TV personality and weatherman extraordinaire Jim Cantore was in our region Thursday with a big gift for his alma mater. Cantore, who is best known for his work at the Weather Channel, is a 1982 graduate of Hartford High School. Thursday, he was back at the school to help install a new apparatus called Weather STEM. It’s a device that monitors real-time weather conditions in a specific location. Cantore donated the technology to the school. Students will incorporate it into their studies.
Fairview High School’s new state-of-the-art weather station adds to science curriculum”
Weather reporting just got a lot more scientific at Fairview High School with the recent installation of a Weatherstem system providing temperature, pressure, wind and lightning detection data, as well as high-heat monitoring and locations of planets. “Obviously, there are a lot of applications we’re looking into,” science teacher Colleen M. Sliwinski said. “The first thing you think of is meteorology. There’s actually a course built into the Weatherstem program.”
WeatherStem Station at OCS inspiring the next generation of meteorologists
Children are accustomed to technology — cellphones, tablets, computers — you name it. But the data they deal with doesn’t always have immediate real-world applications for them. One local school is going against that trend, using new technology to bring weather lessons to life for its students.
WeatherStem Station at OCS inspiring the next generation of meteorologists
OCS is the only K-12 school in Louisiana to have this kind of technology. The same technology was just installed at LSU. It takes multiple measurements from the school’s baseball field. There’s also a camera on the football field which creates timelapse videos. The videos are posted on the station’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
How UWF, high school sports teams stay safe and active with lightning, summer heat
Strategies for beating the weather on summer afternoons have come a long way from the days of simple skywatching and hose-hugging. Local high school and college athletic teams have developed various methods for dealing with the regularities of Pensacola’s subtropical climate. After all, practice can’t stop with every random thunderstorm or scorching hot day that rolls through the area.