The weather satellite receiving station shows pictures collected from both geo-stationary and polar orbiting satellites as they are transmitted.
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A standard meteorological square is used to calibrate automatic instruments and for guided educational use by schools. The automatic instruments record pressure, temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed and wind direction. Sir Norman Lockyer set up the world’s first international organisation for the collection of climatic and weather data and an international committee to collate weather data with solar activity. The station is part of a growing interest in satellite remote imaging of the Earth at the Observatory as well as for meteorology. From about 1868 Norman Lockyer became convinced that the Sun's activity affected the world's weather and set up a group across the globe to collect weather information to collate with his Solar observations. The Observatory has reinstated a weather station and its former interest in meteorology. Special computer programs, updated by North American and European Space Agencies, permit predictions for visible passes of space stations and satellites. The observatory receives images from polar orbiting and geostationary weather satellites.
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