Project title: Why is weather changing

Team: ESMM

Clonaslee College   Clonaslee   Ireland   4 Student’s age: 16-17 years old

Why are we getting more rainfall and what affects is it having on clonaslee

Flooding can cause physical injuries, illnesses, and loss of lives Floods are a natural and inevitable
part of life in Ireland.
We want to investigate the difference of rainfall throughout the months of February to see if it
has increased or decreased and see if the participation rates have changed in our local areas
• In our project we will investigate the local climate problem, that there is more water on
the roads and in the rivers and that there’s a lot more water on farmers lands.
• This farm land is flooding and is damaging crops and land for the farmers
• To collect our data, we placed a container measuring 10cm x 10cm x 5cm under a rain
gutter.
• We collected the rainwater each day for 7 days.
• At the end of each day the rai water was collected and measure using a measuring jug.
This gave us the rain in millilitre (ml).
• We then converted the millilitre(ml) in milometer (mm).
• This was done using the formula {length x weights x height} as the container was cuboid.
• To us the formula we had to convert units from cm to meters and ml to litres
Example on day 2 Monday the 13th February we collected 350ml- to change to litres we divided
350 by 1000 and got 0.35 litre.
To convert 10cm to meters we divided by 100 and got 0.1m
• Therefore, to convert 350 ml to mm-the following was done
• 0.1m x 0.1m x h= 0.35lt
• O.1h =0.35lt
• H=35mm
• This was complete for 7 days.
• To find the total amount of rainfall for our local area during February 2023. We added the
rainfall for the 7 days to find total for the week. This answer was then multiplied by 7. See
fig in result

Result- The result from our primary data shows that the total amount of rainfall for February 2023
was 317.2mm
Compared to the data we got from met.ie which shows the total amount of rainfall for
February 2023 was 317.2mm
February 2022 was 143.1mm
February 2021 was 113.4mm
February 2020 was 248.5mm
Analyse
There has been an increase in rainfall in our local area. The difference between 2020 and 2023 is
68.7mm.
Conclusion
This is happening due to an increase in temperature. Warmer temperature leads to more
evaporation and the development of rainfall. Our data for 2023 is particularly high as our local
area is situated in the Slieve bloom mountains. Mountainous areas are prone to rain. This is
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Rainfall for the month of February 2020- 2023
causing flooding in our local area, as we have observed that the local river Clodaigh is rising and
the water. This flood water flows on to farm land and is destroying crops.

We have learnt that the weather has changed down through the years in Laois. the data has
changed throughout the years and that there has been more rainfall throughout the years
We could have collected the data for longer or during different times of the year to see the
changes
The solution is to cut down on burning fossil fuel, in homes, vehicle and factories. Use clean
source such solar, wind water. This will reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and cut
down on temperature rising. As a result, there will be less storms and rainfall.

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