Met Éireann Competition for a School to Win an Automatic Weather Station
The prize consists of 1 package containing a Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station with console, its WeatherLink software and a tripod. Students and teachers may enter this competition on behalf of their school.
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This competition is open any primary or secondary school in ROI or NI only, students and teachers may enter on behalf of their school using the School email address. The closing date for this competition is 23:00 Monday 13th January 2020.
Met Éireann asks the winning school to upload the data to the WOW database following installation, where it can be viewed on this website. Please see Technical Requirements below.
Exposure Guide for Weather Station location:
Exposure is relevant to the site of the temperature and rainfall instruments only, which should ideally be at ground level. Sensors for sunshine, wind speed etc are best exposed as freely as possible, and rooftop or mast mountings are usually preferable.
Exposure guidelines are based on a multiple of the height (h) of the obstruction above the sensor height; the standard is a minimum distance of twice the height (2h). Thus for a raingauge at 30 cm above ground, a building 5 m high should be at least 9.4 m distant (5 m less 0.3 m, x 2), and a 10 m building should be at least 17 m from a thermometer screen (10 m less 1.5 m, x2)
Further details and site rating guide is available here
Technical Requirements:
The Davis Vantage Pro2 Wireless Weather Station is an Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) which houses and manages the external sensor array, and the console which provides the user interface, data display, and calculations. Weather station to console communication:
Line of Sight . . . . . . . . up to 1000 feet (300 m)
Through Walls . . . . . . . . up to 200 to 400 feet (60 to 120 m)
Please take this into consideration when entering this competition. Further specifications in Davis Resources section here.
Minimum PC requirements: Mac OS-X or Windows 7 with 5MB free disk space, plus extra disk space necessary for the data files depends on the archive interval. Further information here . Internet connection required. One spare USB or Serial port required. WeatherLink Details and System Requirements are here
Competition Terms & Conditions
Met Éireann School Competition to Win an Automatic Weather Station.
The prize is a package of 1 Davis Wireless Vantage Pro2 Weather Station with display console, 1 cd of WeatherLink software, 1 item of the required data logger and 1 tripod. The closing date for this competition is 11pm Monday 13th January 2020. The competition is open to all primary and secondary schools in ROI and NI. You must be 16 or over to enter. One entry per school will be considered as part of the competition. As this is a free competition there is no proof of purchase. The prize is 1 weather station and listed accessories (as described above). You may edit your answers on the Google form until closing date/time. Selection of winning entry: all questions must be answered correctly. Following that, the entries with the best answers for the last question will be numbered (answered judged by a Met Éireann panel), then the winning entrant from that list will be chosen by an online random number generator and recorded. You may enter on behalf of your school, but if the prize is not accepted by the winning entrant’s School Principal and/or school board of management, another winning entrant will be selected using the selection process, this will be repeated until the prize is accepted. The prize consists of a Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station with console, WeatherLink software and tripod. Met Éireann accepts no responsibility for the operation of the prize once accepted by the school. We ask that the winning school install the weather station at their chosen location on school grounds subject to Exposure Guide and Technical Requirements(above). We ask the winning school to upload the data to the WOW database following installation, where the observations can be viewed on https://wow.met.ie/ . The winning school may be asked to be included in some post-event publicity. No cash alternative can be substituted for the prize. The winner will be notified via the supplied email by 30th January 2020. Met Éireann will either publish or make available on request, the name and county of residence of the prize winner. The entries will be collected using a Google form, email addresses in the form will be deleted when the prize is accepted by the winning school. It is not possible to return the entries. The winner will not be liable to pay tax as a result of winning the prize. Met Éireann will ship the prize to the winners location no more than six weeks after the competition has ended. Met Éireann is a division of the Dept. of Housing, Planning and Local Government. The Privacy Statement for handling the personal data obtained in this competition is available here. We may extend the closing date if there is a poor response. The prize cannot be shared and will not be awarded in installments.
Entry Form: (you can edited it again right up till the closing date - 11pm Monday 13th January)