A Weather Station by the Sea

A stone weather station with a slate roof, standing on a grassy headland above the sea, shown as six rooms on two floors. Upstairs on the left, two men stretch fabric across a ring to prepare a balloon beside a window. Next door the staff eat together at a table under bunting, a food chart on the wall. At the right a records room holds binders, rolled charts and a lectern, with years hung from the beams and an index of storms on the wall. Downstairs, a forecaster and a woman plot a weather map at a drafting table; a workshop has tools, a barometer and a man mending an instrument while a boy looks through a magnifier; and a radio room has a large control panel, headphones and a wall map of Ireland. The weather map, the storm index and the wall map of Ireland give the station plenty of printed landmarks to hold on to.