An Aimsir – Weather Recording
Pupils record the weather every day from September to the end of June – even the weekends and holidays! This information is put on a graph in the classroom and then saved on computer disc. It is also displayed in the school. We have some records dating back to 1991!
Rainfall – Classes have been recording the rainfall since 1991. A pupil takes a rain gauge home for 4 weeks and finds out the daily rainfall. He then reports to the class the following day. When the 4 weeks are up another pupil takes the gauge.
Temperature – We are relatively new at recording the temperature. This was started in 1998. Two pupils check our minimum/maximum thermometer which is in the school. This shows how cold and how warm it has been over a 24 hour period. They then report back to the class and fill in the information on the charts.
Wind – We started recording the wind in 1993. Two pupils check what direction the wind is coming from by looking at the clouds, chimney smoke and the weather information on the newspapers and TV. We then check the strength by using the Beaufort Scale. This information is then put on a graph called a wind rose in class.
Weather Report Deireadh Fomhair 2008
Barry Chandler recorded the rainfall for October and he found that 128mm (5.6inches) fell altogether during the month. The wettest day was on the 14th when 22mm fell. We had 16 wet days during the month. The temperature was recorded by Dylan O’Donovan & Jamie Roche and they found that it ranged from a low of 3 degrees on the night of the 30th to a high of 17 degrees centigrade that we had on the 6th and the 13th. The average minimum temperature was 8.2 degrees while the average maximum temperature was 14.2 degrees centigrade. The wind was recorded by David O’Connor & Chris Gormley and they found that the most common wind was from the South/West (14 days) with North (7 days) in second place. The strongest wind was a Force 8 on the Beaufort Scale from the South/West which we had on the 23rd of the month.
Weather report – Eanair 2008
The rainfall for January was recorded by Owen Michel and he found that 177mm (7.1inches) fell altogether during the month. Checking back over our records we found that it was the second wettest January we have had here in Cobh since 1992! The wettest January was in 2002 when 202mm (8.8inches) of rain fell while the driest January was in 1998 when only 13mm (0.5inch) fell. The wettest day this January was on Wednesday 9th when 45mm (1.8inches) fell. We had 19 wet days altogether.
The temperature was recorded by Dylan O’Brien & Glen O’Sullivan and they found that it ranged from a low of –1 degrees on the 3rd to a high of 13 degrees centigrade on the 27th of the month. The average minimum temperature was 4 degrees while the average maximum temperature was 9 degrees centigrade. The wind was recorded by Daniel Butler & Stephen Coffey and they found that the most common wind came from the South/West (13 days) with West (6 days) in second place. The strongest wind was a Force 8 on the Beaufort Scale (62-74kph, 39-46mph),which we had on 2nd, 5th & 30th of the month.
Beimid ar ais an mhi seo chugainn. Slan go foil.
An Aimsir Feabhra 2008
Patrick Bransfield recorded the rainfall and found that 44mm (1.9inches) fell altogether during the month. There were eight wet days with the 4th being the wettest with 12mm (0.5inch) of rain. The wettest February since 1992 was in 1994 when we had 213mm (9.2) of rain while the driest one was in 1998 when only 13mm (0.57inch) of rain fell. The temperature was recorded by Calvin Mackey & Seán Murphy and they found that it ranged from a low of –1 on the night of the 3rd to a high of 14 degrees centigrade on the 23rd. The average minimum temperature was 4.9 while the average maximum temperature was 9.9 degrees centigrade. The wind was recorded by Shane Marshall & Darragh Kelleher and they found that the most common wind came from the South/West (10 days) with South/East (8 days) in second place. The strongest wind was Force 7 (51-61kph, 32-38mph) on the Beaufort Scale.
An Aimsir Márta 2008
Lucas Keating recorded the rainfall for March and found that 121mm (5.2 inches) fell altogether during the month. The wettest day was on the 9th when we had 27mm (1.2inches) of rain. We only had eight dry days altogether! The wettest March since we started our recordings in 1992 was in 1996 when 214mm (9.3inches) of rain fell. The driest March was in 2000 when only 14mm (0.6 inch) of rain fell. The temperature was recorded by Emmet Burns & Luke Savage and they found that it ranged from a low of –1 degrees on the night of the 26th to a high of 12 degrees centigrade which we had on 5th of the month. The average minimum temperature was 4 degrees while the average maximum temperature was 9 degrees centigrade. The wind was recorded by Anthony Devlin & Breffni Carter and they found that the most common wind came from two directions – North/West & South/West with 9 days each! The strongest wind was a Force 8 on the Beaufort Scale on 9th when we also had gusts of up to 120kph on the same day. Sunday the 9th was definitely a bad day as it also was the wettest day of the month!
Beimid ar ais an mhi seo chugainn. Slán go foil.
An Aimsir Aibrean 2007
The rainfall for April was recorded by Sean Murphy and he found that 34mm (1.5inches) of rain fell during the month making it one of the driest Aprils we have had since we began our weather recording in 1992. The wettest April was in 2005, when we had 125mm (5.4inches) of rain while the driest one was in 1995, when only 10mm (0.4inch) fell. The temperature was recorded by Shane Marshall & Luke Savage and they found that it ranged from zero degrees on the 7th & 8th to a high of 18 degrees centigrade on the 2nd. The average minimum temperature was 5 degrees while the average maximum temperature was 11 degrees centigrade. The wind was recorded by Patrick Bransfield & Saul Gilmore and they found that the most common wind came from the South/West (12 days). The strongest wind was a Force 6 on the Beaufort Scale (41-50kph, 25-31mph).
Beimid ar ais an mhi seo chugainn. Slan go foil.