Student forecasters welcome to add a little colour to Greenwood skies
Hello, students! I’m Corporal Winter, with 14 Wing Greenwood’s Intelligence and Meteorological Flight. I’d like to invite you to learn more about MET in Greenwood, and task you with entering to become Greenwood’s most accurate student forecaster!
The MET section at 14 Wing works around the clock, 365 days a year, to support military operations and search and rescue missions. Every millimetre of rain; every centimetre of snow; and every record-setting temperature is observed, measured and recorded by MET technicians here on base. Briefing the units and squadrons is an important part of our work, as we interpret satellite, radar and lightning detection programs to warn of inclement weather (such as thunderstorms), or to share the good news of a sky-clear day.
I, along with the entire MET section, encourage you to forecast the weather for an upcoming very important date: the first day of school, September 5. Will it rain? Will it be sunny and hot? What about clouds?
Show us your forecast by colouring in what our skies will look like, and you could be hailed as Greenwood’s most accurate student forecaster!
To help guide your forecasting, I’ve included historical weather data from our observations from the last five years’ worth of September 5s:
2023 25.4°C partly cloudy
2022 21.6°C rain, cloudy
2021 18.8°C cloudy
2020 22.5°C clear skies
2019 21.1°C rain, partly cloudy
Once your forecast has been completed, please drop it off by 3 p.m. August 19, at either The Aurora Newspaper (61 School Road, Greenwood), or at the Greenwood CANEX (1 Ward Road). All submissions will be assessed by the MET section for accuracy, and winners may have their forecasts shared by The Aurora (in print, or Facebook @The Aurora News).
Three categories: Pre-Primary to Grade 3, Grade 4 to Grade 8, Grade 9 to 12
Prize packs include
one free hour of Greenwood Bowling Centre fun
a CANEX Greenwood treat
