Lightning sensor (optional) Integrated in-cloud (IC) and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning detection sensorĥ. Rain Gauge- Daily, monthly, and yearly rainfall totals and averagesĤ. Sensor shelter- Temperature, relative humidity, heat index, wind chill, barometric pressure, dew point, wet bulb, and moreģ.
“Classroom teachers use the information from the WeatherBug in their morning meetings, including the use of the videocam to show live footage of what’s happening with the weather from the rooftop.”Īt all four Ballston Spa elementary schools, students use the weather data in their morning announcements, and in fifth-grade classes, the information is part of the science curriculum.Īt the high school, students in Earth science and chemistry analyze WeatherBug data.The following equipment makes up the WeatherBug schools equipmentĢ. “Parents indicate that they check the system to decide what students should wear and for checking the weather’s effect on road conditions,” he says. “The golf coach uses the information to help with decisions about the practices and matches,” Williams says.Īt Ballston Spa High School, the athletic department uses a Spark feature, an alert about lightning strikes in the area, to decide on whether to hold or cancel practices and games. In the Ballston Spa School District, the weather data is used by students, faculty, administrators and parents, says Stuart Williams, the district’s community relations coordinator. In Ballston Spa, Gordon Creek Elementary School has a WeatherBug station with a camera, with info at Two years ago, when it was installed, the WeatherBug mascot paid a visit to Gordon Creek, delighting the students.
Madeleine Sophie School in Guilderland and Schuylerville Elementary School, and those images are also used on Channel 13, Kovachick says. In an email, chief meterologist Bob Kovachick says that he uses information from miSci and nine other places with WeatherBugs, including Pinewood Elementary School in Schenectady, the town of Colonie, the village of Fort Plain’s department of public works, Perth Volunteer Fire Company and Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES in Johnstown.įive schools have video cameras with their WeatherBugs, including St. MiSci’s weather station also provides data for Channel WNYT-13 broadcasts. “The geyser goes off every 17 minutes,” Sudduth says. In other parts of the exhibit, there’s a small swirling tornado and a mini geyser enclosed in glass. If you poke your hand into a large black saucer filled with a foggy mist, you can feel what it’s like to touch a cloud. “Once upon a time, we had sandstorms here,” says Sudduth. Visitors can watch how air moves sand and creates different landscapes, like the Pine Bush in Albany, a sandy region sculpted by wind thousands of years ago. National Grid also uses the weather data,” says Sudduth.įrom now through June 5, the WeatherBug is the perfect companion to “Earth Exposed: Discover Our Planet’s Hidden Secrets,” an interactive exhibit from San Francisco’s Exploratorium. “It’s a service to the community, a collection point for weather data. The idea is to keep communities safer by providing real-time alerts and forecasts to local officials, first responders and others who require real-time local weather. In the Capital Region, National Grid has sponsored and installed more than a dozen WeatherBugs at schools, fire stations and government offices in the past few years.
WeatherBug, which is owned by Earth Networks and based in Maryland, maintains a network of more than 8,000 weather stations across the country. It comes back from the Internet to here,” Sudduth says, pointing to the computer screen. “It’s hooked up on the roof to the Internet. WeatherBug landed at miSci three months ago, when National Grid installed weather-gathering equipment on top of the building. The museum can also flash the temperature on its new LED sign near the curb on Nott Terrace. On the website for the Museum of Innovation and Science, anyone with access to the Internet can see the data, too. “And if there’s a weather emergency, it’s on here.”
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I think that everyone is interested in weather,” museum president Mac Sudduth says.
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