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Email links to Weather Contacts

MetLink Schools may like to email weather contacts below during the period of the project (please no more than one question per school/week).

Malcolm Walker (Royal Meteorological Society)
For queries on: meteorology and oceanography.

Steve Dorling (University of East Anglia)
For queries on: all aspects of meteorology and satellite oceanography.

Ross Reynolds (Reading University - Dept of Meteorology)
For queries on: meteorology and weather satellites

Writing your introductory Email

Introduce yourself and your school but remember to keep messages short.
The headings shown below could be cut and pasted onto an email blank
(see email example in brackets)

email address (mjh@radley.org.uk)
Postal address (Radley College, Abingdon, Oxon, UK)
Phone (01235-543043)
Fax (01235-543106)
Teacher (John Harris, Head of Geography)

School Description (Radley College is a Boys Independent Boarding, 620 pupils, aged 13-18 years, in open countryside near Oxford. The school is at an altitude of 70 metres above sea-level and is approximately 100km inland)

Weather Factfile (We run an automatic weather recording station - Weather Reporter - linked to a Power Mac and also a small traditional Stevenson's Screen. We operate a MacSat Weather Receiver linked to the computer network in the Geography Department)

Pupils (the MetLink Weather Team are all 14 years of age, in Year 10. They plan to take weather readings at lunchtime every day.)

Sample weather exchange Email

Schools will enter weather readings onto the main MetLink Database

Details of MetLink Schools

They may also wish to email their results directly to other schools.
Please use a common format when exchanging weather data.
The headings shown below could be cut and pasted onto an email blank.

If you wish to send readings for all 5 days please separate each reading by a comma (comma separated value - CSV) or save the file as Tab separated values to allow the data to be inserted into a spreadsheet package such as Excel.

(example readings in brackets)

Day & Date (Monday 19/01/00)
Time of readings (13.15)
Current Temperature °c (14°c)
Maximum Temperature over past 24 hrs (15°c)
Minimum Temperature over past 24 hrs (10°c)
Relative Humidity (%)
Rainfall over past 24hrs (15mm)
Pressure in milllibars (1012 mb)
Wind Speed kph (5 kph)
Wind Direction (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW)
Cloud Cover in Oktas (2/8ths)
Cloud Type (Cirrus)
Brief Weather Description (fair)

Mailing a group of schools

You can circulate the same email to a whole group of schools.
Most email software packages, such as Netscape, allow multiple mailing.

Method for creating a multiple mailing list in Netscape:

To circulate a group of schools:

The Email will be then circulated to all schools in the group

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