Though it seems more and more unlikely that Hurricane Joaquin will make landfall, Wareham eighth-grader Stephen Caldarola is still actively keeping an eye on it.

Caldarola is the Middle School’s unofficial weatherman. The school got a grant in 2014 from Cape Cod Five Savings Bank, the Wareham Foundation for Education, and 320 to put a weather station on its roof. Since then, the small station – dubbed “Stormchaser Bob”, for no specific reason – has provided Caldarola with the measurements he writes up for the morning announcements every school day.

“Temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction,” Caldarola said, listing what he measures on a daily basis. “On Friday, we calculate the average [for the week].”

The station also has built-in equipment to monitor dew point, the atmospheric temperature below which water droplets begin to form. This varies with humidity and pressure.

Science teacher Suzanne Tabor has worked with Caldarola since the school got the grant last year. She said the 13-year-old has dutifully come in every day at 7 a.m. to take the measurements, a good half-hour before school starts.

Tabor said she and Caldarola don’t actually go out to the weather station, but, instead, collect the data from HOBOLink, a web-enabled software platform designed by Bourne-based Onset Computer Corporation. The platform provides environmental data collected from HOBO devices, such as the one installed on the school’s roof.

“It is linked to Wunderground, which is one of the common [online] weather stations. The data that comes up, if you [search] in Wareham, is our weather station,” Tabor said. “So, anyone can access our data. Our data can be taken from anywhere. You can be in California, and pick up the Wunderground station.”

Caldarola said he enjoys science the most of all his subjects.

“My dad likes science … he’s passing on stuff to me about science,” Caldarola said. “I like astronomy, chemistry, I like biology, engineering – everything! Everything, I love about it. Weather is part of science. … Really fascinating.”

Like all weathermen, Tabor said, Caldarola is subject to some pretty harsh public scrutiny.

“Yesterday, everybody was complaining about the weather to Stephen, like a typical weatherman, when we blame them for things that go wrong,” Tabor said. “Everyone was coming and saying, ‘Stephen! Make it go away!’”

“I was taking the heat for it!” Caldarola said.

And if Hurricane Joaquin does make landfall?

“Take precautionary measures!” Caldarola said. “We usually turn off all technology.”