Kerala to set up weather stations in schools to familiarise students with climate change

“The General Education department has already begun the process of setting up weather monitoring stations in 240 schools in the state and it is a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country”, he noted during the function.

Through such centres, students would have first-hand knowledge and understanding of what they have learnt from textbooks on the weather.

“Daily changes in atmospheric conditions will be monitored and recorded through the school weather stations. Thus, every child can be made a weather observer… the data collected will be used for further research,” he said.

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Each school weather station would have 13 devices including a rain gauge, thermometer, weather data bank and so on.

In Kozhikode, the weather stations are being set up in 18 government higher secondary schools in the district where geography is an optional subject.

Children would observe the amount of rain received in the area, wind speed and atmospheric pressure and record it in a special chart.

Students would record the data obtained from the school weather stations in a separate chart.

Special training would be imparted to geography students and teachers as part of the project, the ministers added.

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