Observation
Meteorology is based on observation, indispensable for forecasting the weather and classifying a region's climate.
All year the meteorologist examines the sky from the Mont Aigoual station tower from a quarter to six in the morning to a quarter to seven in the evening. He is helped by countless electronic instruments outside the building which continuously measure the data for temperature, air humidity, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, and wind direction and speed.
All this information is gathered together by the automatic Miria station which feeds the observations into a CAOBS processor. Observations are sent hourly to the international meteorological network from this processor...