Weather Stations FCC

<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2C3643;'>Weather Data from Schools across Fingal County Council is been made available on NASA's GLOBE Project online since December 2022</span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2C3643;'>Since 2021, schools across Fingal have been receiving automatic weather stations as part of an effort by Fingal County Council to produce more detailed rainfall, wind speed, wind direction and temperature records for the county. The information collected from the weather stations is visible on Met Éireann’s Weather Observations Website, WOW-IE, providing essential real-time weather data to the public and to Met Éireann, the OPW and Fingal County Council’s flood section. </span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2C3643;'> </span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2C3643;'>The project began in 2021 with Fingal County Council issuing 100 rainfall gauges to primary schools and further advanced with 27 automatic weather stations installed across Fingal throughout 2022.</span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2C3643;'> </span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt;'> </p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,sans-serif; color:#2C3643;'>Led by Executive Engineer Kevin Vallely, the project was funded by Fingal County Council’s Chief Executive’s Innovation Fund. The Fund covered the €5,000 start-up cost for rain gauges and provided support to get the innovative idea off the ground.</span></p> <p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'><span style='font-size:11.5pt; font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif; color:#4C4C4C;'>See this link for live data :</span></p> <p style='margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:0cm; background:white;'><span style='font-size:11.5pt; font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif; color:#4C4C4C;'><a href='https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwow.met.ie%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CAnn.McCabe%40fingal.ie%7Cbe4edea078464e10fc6108d9d0673457%7C72dcfc23757145948154afe2c0bdea98%7C0%7C0%7C637769963933663934%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=v3K%2FINowi4cCCPO6QjLFsHb4PHZXU4T9RrVVpdIKy8E%3D&amp;reserved=0' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:blue;'>https://wow.met.ie/</span></a></span></p> <p style='margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white;'><span style='font-size:11.5pt; font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif; color:#4C4C4C;'>We also have one Lusk/Rush which are monitoring air quality at the moment. To see this data please follow below link.:</span></p> <p style='margin-top:12.0pt; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:0cm; background:white;'><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color:#212121;'><a href='https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weatherlink.com%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CAnn.McCabe%40fingal.ie%7Cbe4edea078464e10fc6108d9d0673457%7C72dcfc23757145948154afe2c0bdea98%7C0%7C0%7C637769963933663934%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=OgNJr1nchO2y4HqlKK4DqiAGHSCZwhiL3mw8J1aaKG8%3D&amp;reserved=0' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='color:blue;'>https://www.weatherlink.com/</span></a></span></p>