Friday, March 12, 2010
Largest interactive weather report -
BBC News School Report sets world record
LONDON, UK -- Hundreds of BBC
School Report
students across the UK each took a Celsius reading and
e-mailed it in to the BBC Weather Centre, where they were
compiled for a huge interactive weather report, fronted by
the BBC's Carol Kirkwood , setting the world record for the Largest
interactive weather report
. 
Photo: Weatherman Michael Fish helped
students to set the world record
To create a new world record for the Largest
interactive weather report
more than 250 schools needed
to send in their temperatures and by around 1430GMT, and the
target was finally reached.
Schools from the Shetland Islands in the
north to Jersey in the south - and as far away as St Helena
in the South Atlantic Ocean - were also taking the temperature.
The temperature reading at every school
needed to be verified by an independent witness, not affiliated
to the school. This could be the local policeman, minister
of religion, doctor or shopkeeper.
Link: Shcools
taking part
BBC weather forecaster Carol Kirkwood
said: "The weather is the one thing in our lives which changes
on a daily, even hourly, basis. It's hugely interesting and
lots of fun."
Ex-teacher and BBC News presenter Huw Edwards,
who is lending his support to the project, said: "I'm involved
because I want to give young people the chance to make the
news themselves, and I want to share the principles of good
journalism."
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