The Weather Station Thread

[Rhys W]

Summer is when it rains every other day at between 14 and 19 degrees. Winter is when it rains every other day at between 3 and 12 degrees. Spring and Autumn were cut by George Osborne.

[Wowbagger]

Today is likely to see Southend's July rainfall total pass the 1" mark, and 2012's pass 1'. I would imagine that this is positively arid compared to some parts of the country.

[rafletcher]

A local weather station in Chesham, Bucks  is reporting 431mm annual rainfall so far. It doesn't have a month to date figure.

[mcshroom]

Currently we are on 363.9mm here and 35mm have fallen so far this month. This is quite a dry year up North

[rafletcher]

Now 463mm, so that's 32mm in 6 days.

[Wowbagger]

Currently we are on 363.9mm here and 35mm have fallen so far this month. This is quite a dry year up North

So Southend is hardly any drier than Cumbria, and wetter so far in July.

333.6mm in 2012, 59.2mm in July.

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Currently we are on 363.9mm here and 35mm have fallen so far this month. This is quite a dry year up North

So Southend is hardly any drier than Cumbria, and wetter so far in July.

333.6mm in 2012, 59.2mm in July.

Strange - here in Eskdale we have had 630 mm so far, but "only" 56 mm in July.

Whereabouts are you, mcshroom?

[mcshroom]

That's from St Bees Primary School's weather station: -

http://www.stbees.org.uk/weather/2007.htm (forget the 2007 bit, it is the current year).

I'm just up the hill in Egremont

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Ah, thanks.

An interesting rain shadow there - on that damp friday last month (22Jun), I recorded 72mm, the Met office station at St Bees Head, 56mm, but only 36mm at the school.

[mcshroom]

I don't remember the day as I was on tour in northern Scotland at the time, but that wouldn't surprise me too much.

The headland station is on the lighthouse so the rain clouds are climbing. Even more so for you in Eskdale. The School is in the village so basically at sea level. Also depending on whether it was a Southerly or Westerly wind bringing the rain in, St Bees village may have been sheltered by the hill between it and Nethertown.
 
I'll check the numbers against the Sellafield weather station tomorrow (up to the end of June - reports are generated monthly)

[Wowbagger]

Yesterday was the warmest day I've recorded, and the highest minimum: mean temperature 25.9°C (min: 21.1°C, max: 32.6°C).

27/6/2011 was the previous warmest with a mean of 25.5°C (min: 18.3°C, max: 33.3°C).

[Wowbagger]

I was just thinking, seeing as how the first 7 days of this month have all had a maximum temperature in excess of 20°C, that there must have been few periods of 7 consecutive days this year in which this has happened.

How wrong I was: every day in August, with the exception of the last two, the maximim temperature exceeded 20°C. Indeed, the last 10 days of July were just as warm.

The only day between 22nd July and 29th August on which the maximum temperature did not equal or exceed 70°F (21.1°C) was 29th July, when the maximum was 20.4°C. Yet we have been complaining about a rotten summer. It's certainly been wet, but, round here at least, not all that cold.

http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/NOAA/NOAA-2012-07.txt and http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/NOAA/NOAA-2012-08.txt refer.

[Wowbagger]

An idle thought had me comparing 2011 and 2012.

The mean temperature for the whole of 2011 was 12.3°C. The mean for 2012 currently stands at 12.3°C.

The mean minimum temperature for 2011 was 8.9°C. So far for 2012 it is 8.8°C.

http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/NOAA/NOAA-2011.txt and http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/NOAA/NOAA-2012.txt refer.

[nicknack]

How's the rain gauge this morning?

[Wowbagger]

Very quiet this morning. We've had 0.4mm today. Yesterday was 22.8mm though, the wettest day so far this year (just beating 8th July) and the second wettest day I've recorded, behind the 24.2mm of 6th June 2011.

[nicknack]

Judging by what it's doing here at the mo, today might come pretty close too.

[Wowbagger]

Interesting. There has been a little light rain so far today but amounting to only 0.8mm. You can't be more than about 15 miles from here as the rain-cloud flies.

[Wowbagger]

A screenshot of today's radar map.

That's a pretty vigorous-looking storm over the South Downs. Still not raining in Southend.

[Toady]

Here's mine.
 
It was running off an always-on windows box, that died.  Now it's from a sometimes-on box, for the time being, which kind of defeats the object.  Not been updated since noon yesterday.

Hoping to get another always-on solution of some description sometime soon so I may bug you about what/how you do yours.

[mcshroom]

I've just collated the annual data for this year (we run September-August for some reason).

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Daily Reports

Date      Ave Wind                  Temperature                  Average Solar     Average Air
         Speed (m/s)  Ave (°C) Max (°C)  min (°C)   Rain (mm)   Radiation (W/m²)  Pressure (kPa)
2005-6       4.25        10.39     30.0     -5.3     1005.7             124.27          101.26
2006-7       4.89        10.97     25.8     -3.5     1167.0             113.94          101.28
2007-8       4.39        10.25     27.0     -4.8     1059.6             108.81          101.37
2008-9       4.25         9.86     26.0     -4.7     1296.4             114.25          101.08
2009-10      3.86         9.33     21.6     -5.4     1007.2             119.38          101.05
2010-11      3.86         8.83     23.2     -7.6     1017.0             112.66          101.16
2011-12      4.22        10.78     26.7     -3.7     1361.4             111.45          101.16
As you can see this year (Sep11-Aug12) was the wettest and second dullest in the period we have measured.

Extra to add, this is the total rainfall for each month since August 2005

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           2005   2006    2007   2008    2009    2010    2011   2012  Averages
Jan              146.7   104.4  178.8   113.6    52.8    71.6  129.4     113.9
Feb               61.6    58.4   37.8    28.4    39.4   138.6   44.8      58.4
Mar              119.3    80.2   92.6    65.8    53.0    50.2   28.8      70.0
Apr               72.1    30.0   55.6    47.0    62.8    52.4   38.8      51.2
May              109.6    57.4   20.6   103.4    37.6   130.4   53.0      73.1
Jun               32.8    95.6  108.4    95.4    52.2    64.2  191.2      91.4
Jul               42.6   113.8   86.0   138.8   145.0    90.8  145.0     108.9
Aug        45.6  136.8    64.8  148.6   181.8    73.4   116.2  173.2     117.6
Sep        36.6  119.4    77.2   93.6    80.0   140.6   140.6             98.3
Oct       179.7  148.8    66.2  220.0    75.0   113.8   124.8            132.6
Nov              142.2    67.6   71.6   236.2   127.6    56.2            116.9
Dec        32.0  171.4   117.6  119.2   120.2    36.0   102.0             99.8              all in mm


[Wowbagger]

I'm really struggling to make sense of that data since the columns are not aligned with their headings. I can't see any column which looks as though it could possible be rainfall: this is Cumbria we are talking about, isn't it?

[mcshroom]

Sorry, I've tidied it up now so it should make more sense. This is for just north of Seascale on the Cumbrian coast

[Wowbagger]

I'm guessing that the rainfall column should be metres rather than mm though and that the min and max temperatures displayed are averages. I've never seen kPa before and have no idea how it relates to the more commonly used inches of mercury or millibars.   

[mcshroom]

Those are daily average numbers, so mm is correct and the min and max are also avaerage extreme temperatures. I use daily avarage values as it covers for periods of non-recorded data more easily (there's been about 30 days missed in that dataset).

I've now changed our reporting format to total rainfall for the monthly figures which I have also uploaded.
1kPa is basically 10 mbar, so 100kPa is 1000 mbar if that helps

I'll interrogate the maximum and minimum temperatures when I get home

[mcshroom]

I'll interrogate the maximum and minimum temperatures when I get home

Now done