Weather Labs project offers students the opportunity to become local weather experts

Weather Labs is a brand new and exciting set of resources enabling school students to engage with science by becoming the weather forecasters on their own street.

Weather Labs is a unique weather data feed, accurate to 1km radius, to stimulate the curious minds of its school science users. For the first time across the UK, forecasts for a 1km radius around any postcode will be available in two-hourly time slots. By offering a set of specially written advice kits on producing forecasts in various media, Planet Science helps to give young scientists the tools to communicate science confidently using exclusive and high quality data.

Weather Labs puts the attention on the scientific processes behind recording and understanding information, predicting events accurately and making statements based on data. In conjunction with the forecasting service Weather Central, Planet Science has brought together partners, including Manchester University and Science made Simple, to provide additional resources including podcasts and video.

Using the weather data, schools are supported not only in becoming good communicators of data, but also producers of scientific knowledge. Planet Science is running a large collaborative research project as part of Weather Labs, in which schools can check the high-resolution forecasts against actual observations for the precise locations.

To find out more and join in with Weather Labs, visit: weatherlabs.planet-science.com.

If you have any questions about Planet Science Weather Labs, please email planetscience@tinopolis.com.