The Weather Forecast application develops children’s learning to read scales, an area which they often find difficult. Weather Forecast is designed for use on an interactive whiteboard and allows the teacher or pupils to interact with dials and gauges showing a range of scales.

It provides extension material from the Reading scales application enabling children to read and interpret the national weather monitoring data as presented online.

The application provides 12 datasets for comparison and practise in reading the scales on each component: