Royal Meteorological Society Millennium Project for Schools

In the year 2000, the Royal Meteorological Society celebrates its 150th anniversary. It was founded on 3 April 1850. One of the anniversary events the Society is organizing is CloudWatch Europe, a development of the CloudWatch UK project that ran in 1996. CloudWatch Europe will take place from 20-24 March, 2000. The project is intended for students aged 11-16.

The project involves observing the clouds and precipitation across Europe three times a day for one week and relating the clouds which are observed to weather patterns and atmospheric processes, including a study of changes in clouds and precipitation as weather systems move across Europe. These observations will be exchanged with other participants by means of the internet. They will be entered into a database on-line.

The observations will be discussed and analysed by means of the internet and they will be discussed and analysed in terms of:

(a) the geography (how they relate to weather systems as these systems develop, travel, etc)

(b) the science (the atmospheric processes involved).

CloudWatch Europe - Registration

If you would like to take part in Cloud Watch Europe 2000 or would like further information, please contact the Royal Meteorological Society's Education Officer, Malcolm Walker at education@royal-met-soc.org.uk

Please supply:

Your name and address

Your school's telephone and fax numbers

The ages of the students who will be involved

The subject(s) supported by the project (geography, science, etc)

The names of the teachers involved

The email address you wish to use for the project

Your school's web address (URL), if it has one