Record Breaking Weather

This month we have experienced some extreme weather here in the UK. In fact my local weather station data shows that December has been the wettest month for three years. This got me thinking about other weather records and I found some here. Extreme weather is a great topic for grabbing pupils' attention. With this in mind and using the data from the linked website I decided to create a starter activity where pupils match the data to the weather event. Some of them are more difficult than others, as I would never have imagined that the worlds largest snowflake would have a diameter of 38 centimetres!