Geraldton to Pinnacles
August 28th 2008 We went on a tour of the Bureau of Meteorology at Geraldton. This was out at the airport. We looked at the old instruments and the new ones. We got to see the ground thermometers, one of which is a metre under the ground. It measures soil temperature and the findings are used by the local farmers as to when they should plant their crops.
They set off a weather balloon. We watched it get
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