BBC Weather presenter Kaye Forster takes questions from schools in four continents... and Papa Westray

The schools are taking part in an international Weather Watch, sharing weather data from each school.

Over two days, Kaye took weather questions online at Superclubs Plus and in a 'flash' meeting which she joined from the BBC studios at Tunbridge Wells.

Live in Folkestone

Kaye visited teacher Colette Cotton's school in Folkestone for the online 'hot seat' on Tuesday 24 March.  In the course of an hour Kaye received two hundred questions such as...  

Why do you like thunder storms? 
Kaye:  I love the amount of energy that is involved in a thunderstorms.

What is your favourite football team?
Kaye: It's Man U and Ebbsfleet as I play for the latter.

What kind of thing makes it sunny?
Kaye: High Pressure which dries out the air and stops clouds from forming.

"not techy at all"

Next day, Kaye joined in Colette's biggest ever 'flash meeting'.  (That's a live interactive video meeting online.)  

Colette set up the hour long get together between her own school, St Mary's Primary, and fourteen schools around the world - from Estonia and Kenya, to the Czech Republic and Australia.

(Australian pupils came back to school at night with their parents!)

"I'm not techy at all," laughs Colette Cotton, "but it was the biggest flash meeting we have ever held."

During the flash meeting schools around the world shared their weather news as well as talking to Kaye. 

This photo, for example, is the Czech national weather centre broken under the weight of two meters of snow. 

The picture comes from one of the schools taking part in the Weather Watch, which is located near by.

"It was such a pleasure to be involved in this huge project and to get children interested in the weather, not just here in the UK but also around the world," said Kaye.  "I think that this is a fabulous idea - using new technologies to teach youngsters and help them mix with other cultures and countries."

How did they do that?

A hundred schools around the world are taking part in the World Weather Watch.  It's an ambitious project involving schools in collecting and collating weather data over three two week periods this year. 

At an agreed time each day, pupils measure cloud cover and cloud type, wind direction and wind speed, precipitation and temperature - preferably max and min.

The World Weather Watch is being run by schools networking site Superclubs Plus on Intuitive Media (charges apply) and by Kent Schools.  

St Mary's teacher Colette Cotton is co-ordinating with both. Email colette.cotton@intuitivemedia.com

Take a look at the Kent Weather Watch microsite

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