Meteorologist

Meteorologist Senior Scouts Badge 1958 to 1964

The Meteorologist Badge was part of the Collective series “Scientist”

To earn this badge a scout must do the following * 

(1) Pass or have passed paras 2 and 3 of the Weatherman's badge. 

(2) keep, from his own personal observations, a daily record of the weather for one month (as for Weatherman’s Badge, but for all headings). 

(3) Explain the purposes and principles of simple thermometer, wet and dry thermometer, barometer, anemoneter. 

(4) Understand how synoptic weather maps are produced and be able to read one.

(5) Understand the following: relative humidity, dew-point,  pressure, millibar, isotherm, Buys-Ballot’s law, cold front, warm  front, and illustrate any explanation with diagrams. Be able to explain the conditions necessary for the production of thunderstorms. 

(6) Construct a wind-vane.       

.*The Requirements for each badge varied through issues of POR