World's highest weather station installed on Mt. Everest

World's highest weather station installed on Mt. Everest

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Category : International Published on: May 23 2022

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  • A team of experts from the National Geographic Society has installed the “world’s highest weather station” on Mt. Everest at an altitude of 8,830 metres to automatically measure various meteorological phenomena.
  • This automatic weather station was installed a few metres below the summit point (8,848.86 metres).
  • The weather monitoring system, powered by solar energy, is supposed to measure various meteorological phenomena like air temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure, change in surface height of snow, and incoming and outgoing short and long wave radiation.
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