Brief history about Sola weather Station

Sola weather office is located in Sola, Vanua Lava in the Torba Province. The site has been relocated from Port Patterson in December 1948 to Vetburar, and finally to its current location as of the 1s^t of January, 1972. It is manned by 2 staff working on a 24/7 shift. It is one Global Climate Observing System in Vanuatu, as its data is more than 30 years, thus  it can be used for research. Surface observations were done three hourly and also during flight times ,using meteorological instruments and sensory observations. In the future, there will be Automatic Weather Station (AWS) for Sola, through Vanuatu Climate Adaptation Project (VCAP ) funded by  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ).Sola weather station have instruments that can record meteorological parameters such as atmospheric pressure ,wind speed and direction ,air temperature and relative humidity.Below is an instrument , which is used to measure a particular meteorological parameter.