Our collaboration with the Meteorological Department continued in 2022. This included providing staff from the Meteorological Department transport to Bio D centre and back. Mr Kumaresan, our subcommittee member, would fetch the staff from their office every Wednesday to Bio D centre at 8.30 am. The officers numbering 3-4 persons would then take the readings at our mini weather station. By 11.30 am on most visits they would complete their work and Mr Kumaresan would fetch them back. Readings taken include amount of rainfall and quality of rainwater with the ” Wet-Only Rain Water Sampler” (set up in Sept 2020). Rainwater samples would be sent to the main Meteorological Lab in Selangor for analysis. Other weather parameters monitored include air quality set up in 2017 and these are carried out monthly with different instruments. They include NO nitrogen oxide, NO2 nitrogen dioxide, SO2 sulphur dioxide, and NH# amnonia.
A separate solar powered automated mini weather station measuring temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, wind direction, wind speed, rainfall, solar and uv radiation and sponsored by Tanahmu Aplikasi Sdn Bhd, is also at the site. Mr Wong Seng Yee our committee member helped to maintain the instrument.
