Pictures by Sanjoy ChattopadhyayaAlipore: Mysteries of the meteorological kind were unravelled before school and college students on Friday as they had a brief encounter with various equipment used to record and predict weather parameters. The students were given a brief lecture on the "inherent variability" of weather parameters such as temperature and winds and the need for "vulnerability analysis of various communities". Here's what had the students most interested:Thermometers and the hygrographTextbooks came alive as the students saw the dry bulb thermometer that records the city's official temperature, which is carried in newspapers. Automatic weather station Students had a lot of questions on whether it can be used to save human labour or collect readings from remote areas. It runs on energy from a solar panel and usually measures temperature, wind speed, wind direction, humidity, atmospheric pressure and rainfall and transmits real-time data through satellite.

Source: The Telegraph March 23, 2018 21:00 UTC