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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #150 on: 23 October, 2012, 10:19:07 am »
Yesterday's temperature range was the lowest I can remember for any day: 12.9°C min, 14.3°C max. It was foggy all day, which is quite odd for such a mild day.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #151 on: 01 November, 2012, 11:15:16 pm »
Last month was crap.

                 TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (mm)

                            DEP.    HEAT    COOL
          MEAN  MEAN        FROM    DEG     DEG                          MAX   MAX  MIN   MIN
 YR  MO   MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM    DAYS    DAYS     HI DATE   LOW DATE >=32.2 <=0  <=0  <=-17.8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011 10   17.8  11.1  14.1   1.4   231.1    14.0   28.8   1    3.5  20      0    0    0    0
2012 10   14.4   8.7  11.3  -1.4   379.7     0.0   17.8  17    2.1  28      0    0    0    0


                            PRECIPITATION (mm)

                  DEP.    MAX         ---DAYS OF RAIN---
                  FROM    OBS.                OVER
 YR  MO  TOTAL    NORM    DAY  DATE   0.254  2.54   25.4
---------------------------------------------------------
2011 10   20.9   -18.3    5.7   26       9      3      0
2012 10   57.5    18.3   13.8    5      18      7      0
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #152 on: 28 November, 2012, 11:01:08 pm »
Despite the excessive precipitation in other areas, I think that November in Southend has been about average: 50-ish mm rain. Having said that, the ground has been pretty well saturated since the July deluges and, given the low temperatures, there's hardly any evaporation at this time of year.

It looks as though we could be heading for our first frosts of the winter: 3.2°C at the moment, and forecast to get a fair bit lower over the weekend. I must wrap up well for my ride tomorrow.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #153 on: 30 November, 2012, 08:53:46 am »
The temperature dropped to 0.0°C at 4.48 am in our garden - the first air frost of the winter! It's white and bright outside now.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #154 on: 05 December, 2012, 05:51:02 pm »
Continuing the "last month was crap" theme,


                 TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (kph)

                            DEP.    HEAT    COOL
          MEAN  MEAN        FROM    DEG     DEG                          MAX   MAX  MIN   MIN
 YR  MO   MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM    DAYS    DAYS     HI DATE   LOW DATE >=32.2 <=0  <=0  <=-17.8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011 10   17.8  11.1  14.1   1.4   231.1    14.0   28.8   1    3.5  20      0    0    0    0
2012 10   14.4   8.7  11.3  -1.4   379.7     0.0   17.8  17    2.1  28      0    0    0    0

2011 11   13.3   8.2  10.7   1.3   409.6     0.0   17.4   3    3.0  20      0    0    0    0
2012 11   11.2   5.6   8.2  -1.3   536.0     0.0   16.1  13    0.0  30      0    0    1    0

2011 12    9.5   4.7   7.2   1.2   626.0     0.0   13.4  22   -0.5  19      0    0    2    0
2012 12    7.3   0.8   3.9  -2.2   102.7     0.0   10.1   3   -1.6   2      0    0    2    0


shows the comparative temperatures for October, November and December 2011 and 2012. December 2012 is, obviously, work in progress, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope given the start we've had and the fact that northerly winds seem to have set in.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #155 on: 14 December, 2012, 08:42:19 am »
I'm online again, but it's intermittent. 

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ILONDONL10

Need to sort out a permanent solution.  I've ordered a Raspberry Pi which should keep me busy.

And I lost most of my data for Nov :(

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #156 on: 20 December, 2012, 08:26:17 am »
Today, our rainfall for the year will pass 600mm.

On doing a bit of googling this morning I found this website. This guy's records go back to 1978 and, in the brief period that I've been recording, it seems that his bit of Southend is a lot wetter than mine! Last year, our rainfall was recorded as 503.1mm whereas his was 573.6. It would appear that he's using precisely the same equipment that I am so I would guess that most of the difference is down to our respective locations: neither of our stations is set up in met office recommended situations.

For 2012, this chap has recorded 749mm already, which makes it the wettest year since he started, beating 2001.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #157 on: 20 December, 2012, 09:17:11 am »
The closest weather station to us that I've found is in Chesham. A lot lot colder than us though - they had -1.9C on Tuesday night, but it's a well known frost hollow.  Rain there is 799mm for the year to date, and 48.2mm this month. EDIT: And 9mm since midnight.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #158 on: 20 December, 2012, 09:22:43 am »
Continuing the "last month was crap" theme,


                 TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (kph)

                            DEP.    HEAT    COOL
          MEAN  MEAN        FROM    DEG     DEG                          MAX   MAX  MIN   MIN
 YR  MO   MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM    DAYS    DAYS     HI DATE   LOW DATE >=32.2 <=0  <=0  <=-17.8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011 10   17.8  11.1  14.1   1.4   231.1    14.0   28.8   1    3.5  20      0    0    0    0
2012 10   14.4   8.7  11.3  -1.4   379.7     0.0   17.8  17    2.1  28      0    0    0    0

2011 11   13.3   8.2  10.7   1.3   409.6     0.0   17.4   3    3.0  20      0    0    0    0
2012 11   11.2   5.6   8.2  -1.3   536.0     0.0   16.1  13    0.0  30      0    0    1    0

2011 12    9.5   4.7   7.2   1.2   626.0     0.0   13.4  22   -0.5  19      0    0    2    0
2012 12    7.3   0.8   3.9  -2.2   102.7     0.0   10.1   3   -1.6   2      0    0    2    0


shows the comparative temperatures for October, November and December 2011 and 2012. December 2012 is, obviously, work in progress, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope given the start we've had and the fact that northerly winds seem to have set in.

October and November 2011 were abnormally mild. 
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #159 on: 01 January, 2013, 11:34:20 pm »

                   ANNUAL CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for 2012


NAME: Tickfield House       CITY: Southend-on-Sea       STATE: Essex               
ELEV:   20.1 m    LAT: 51.5 N    LONG:  0.7 E


                 TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (mm), WIND SPEED (kph)

                            DEP.    HEAT    COOL
          MEAN  MEAN        FROM    DEG     DEG                          MAX   MAX  MIN   MIN
 YR  MO   MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM    DAYS    DAYS     HI DATE   LOW DATE >=32.2 <=0  <=0  <=-17.8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012 01    9.5   4.3   6.9   0.7   637.1     0.0   13.9  21   -1.2  14      0    0    4    0
2012 02    7.9   2.3   4.8  -1.2   689.8     0.0   18.8  23   -6.5  11      0    0   12    0
2012 03   13.4   5.0   8.8   0.7   509.7     0.0   20.9  29    1.8  15      0    0    0    0
2012 04   13.5   5.4   9.0  -2.2   478.1     0.0   17.4   2   -0.7   6      0    0    1    0
2012 05   18.0   9.8  13.5  -0.6   254.6     6.2   26.7  30    4.7  16      0    0    0    0
2012 06   19.4  11.7  15.3  -0.4   163.5    13.3   27.8  28    6.5  13      0    0    0    0
2012 07   21.6  13.5  17.1   0.2    72.5    29.0   28.4  24   10.6  30      0    0    0    0
2012 08   23.6  15.3  18.8   0.7    20.4    81.7   32.6  18    7.6  31      1    0    0    0
2012 09   20.4  11.0  15.2  -0.7   165.7    23.4   29.4   9    6.3  22      0    0    0    0
2012 10   14.4   8.7  11.3  -1.4   379.7     0.0   17.8  17    2.1  28      0    0    0    0
2012 11   11.2   5.6   8.2  -1.3   536.0     0.0   16.1  13    0.0  30      0    0    1    0
2012 12    8.7   3.5   6.0  -0.1   683.0     0.0   12.8  23   -4.3  12      0    0    6    0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          15.1   8.0  11.3  -0.5  4589.9   153.6   32.6 AUG   -6.5 FEB      1    0   24    0


                            PRECIPITATION (mm)

                  DEP.    MAX         ---DAYS OF RAIN---
                  FROM    OBS.                OVER
 YR  MO  TOTAL    NORM    DAY  DATE   0.254  2.54   25.4
---------------------------------------------------------
2012 01   38.4   -29.7    9.9    3      11      6      0
2012 02   14.6   -13.4    6.7    6      10      1      0
2012 03   18.5     4.2    5.5    4       6      4      0
2012 04   82.9    39.4   15.0   29      20     12      0
2012 05   40.8    12.6    9.1    1      13      7      0
2012 06   83.5    -7.8   13.4    3      16     11      0
2012 07  112.0    25.6   22.4    8      18      8      0
2012 08   24.8   -13.5    6.5   25      11      3      0
2012 09   46.3    14.5   22.8   23       9      5      0
2012 10   57.5    18.3   13.8    5      18      7      0
2012 11   51.0     9.4    8.7   26      13      7      0
2012 12   65.4    24.7   12.0   22      18     11      0
---------------------------------------------------------
         635.8    84.3    22.8 SEP     163     82      0


                              WIND SPEED (kph)

                              DOM
 YR  MO    AVG     HI   DATE  DIR
----------------------------------
2012 01    6.2   61.2     4   WSW
2012 02    5.3   40.2    18     W
2012 03    3.9   45.1     5   WSW
2012 04    6.0   46.7    26    SW
2012 05    4.9   40.2    25   NNE
2012 06    6.5   48.3     8    SW
2012 07    4.4   35.4    16    SW
2012 08    4.3   37.0    29    SW
2012 09    4.4   41.8    24   WSW
2012 10    4.5   48.3    16    SW
2012 11    4.2   49.9    25    SW
2012 12    5.6   43.5    24   WSW
----------------------------------
           5.0   61.2   JAN   WSW
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #160 on: 01 January, 2013, 11:50:24 pm »
Annual comparisons.


Temperature
                                 DEP.    HEAT    COOL
               MEAN  MEAN        FROM    DEG     DEG                          MAX   MAX  MIN   MIN
 YR            MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM    DAYS    DAYS     HI DATE   LOW DATE >=32.2 <=0  <=0  <=-17.8
2011          16.1   8.9  12.3   0.5  3929.6   107.4   33.3 JUN   -1.7 MAR      1    0    9    0
2012          15.1   8.0  11.3  -0.5  4589.9   153.6   32.6 AUG   -6.5 FEB      1    0   24    0

Rainfall
                         DEP.    MAX         ---DAYS OF RAIN---
                         FROM    OBS.                OVER
 YR            TOTAL    NORM    DAY  DATE   0.254  2.54   25.4
2011         503.1   -48.4    24.2 JUN     118     51      0
2012         635.8    84.3    22.8 SEP     163     82      0

Wind Speed
                              DOM
 YR        AVG     HI   DATE  DIR
2011       5.1   53.1   DEC   WSW
2012       5.0   61.2   JAN   WSW

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #161 on: 03 January, 2013, 10:34:16 pm »
Summary for 2012 from Eskdale - it was the wettest since records began, but I only have one year of data.... 
June 22 was quite damp.
Same weather station type as Wowbagger.
Ignore the wind data, the site is sheltered.


                         ANNUAL CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY

NAME: MountainView  CITY: Eskdale   STATE: Cumbria 
ELEV:    50 m  LAT:  54° 24' 00" N  LONG:   3° 18' 00" W

               TEMPERATURE (°C), HEAT BASE 18.3, COOL BASE 18.3
                          DEP.  HEAT  COOL                                         
        MEAN  MEAN        FROM  DEG   DEG                        MAX  MAX  MIN  MIN
 YR MO  MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM  DAYS  DAYS  HI  DATE  LOW  DATE  >=32 <=0  <=0  <=-18
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 12  1   7.3   3.3   5.4   0.0   400     0  10.2   3  -0.6   28    0    0    2    0
 12  2   6.7   2.8   4.8   0.0   391     0  11.5  23  -3.3    3    0    0    9    0
 12  3  11.8   5.9   8.8   0.0   296     0  19.1  25   0.7    6    0    0    0    0
 12  4  11.3   4.3   7.7   0.0   318     0  16.8  30  -1.3    5    0    0    1    0
 12  5  16.6   7.8  12.2   0.0   204    15  26.6  25   0.5    5    0    0    0    0
 12  6  16.6  10.0  13.1   0.0   156     1  22.6  20   5.3    4    0    0    0    0
 12  7  18.1  11.9  14.8   0.0   113     3  22.9   5   8.0   12    0    0    0    0
 12  8  19.0  12.7  15.6   0.0    91     7  23.5  15   6.1   31    0    0    0    0
 12  9  14.9   9.2  12.3   0.0   181     0  20.5   3   3.7   22    0    0    0    0
 12 10  11.8   6.5   9.1   0.0   285     0  15.4  24   1.3   27    0    0    0    0
 12 11   8.5   4.7   6.7   0.0   348     0  12.9  20  -1.1   29    0    0    3    0
 12 12   6.9   2.8   5.0   0.0   412     0  10.8  23  -2.4    5    0    0    9    0
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        12.5   6.8   9.6   0.0  3193    27  26.6 MAY  -3.3  FEB    0    0   24    0

                                PRECIPITATION (mm)

               DEP.   MAX        DAYS OF RAIN
               FROM   OBS.          OVER
 YR MO  TOTAL  NORM   DAY  DATE  .2   2   20
---------------------------------------------
 12  1 123.0    0.0  18.0   20   23   16    0
 12  2  65.0    0.0  14.4   20   18   10    0
 12  3  40.3    0.0   8.2   16   13    8    0
 12  4  71.2    0.0  13.2    9   20   10    0
 12  5  67.8    0.0  30.8   10   12    7    1
 12  6 203.8    0.0  72.6   22   21   15    1
 12  7 170.7    0.0  26.6   24   23   17    1
 12  8 206.0    0.0  30.6    6   25   16    3
 12  9 176.4    0.0  34.0   30   24   16    2
 12 10 163.8    0.0  31.0   28   24   17    2
 12 11 136.0    0.0  27.0   22   26   19    1
 12 12 172.7    0.0  26.4   20   28   18    2
---------------------------------------------
      1596.8   0.0  72.6  JUN  257  169   13

                                WIND SPEED (m/s)
                          DOM
 YR MO   AVG.  HI   DATE  DIR
---------------------------------
 12  1   1.2  16.5    4   WNW
 12  2   0.8  11.2   18   WNW
 12  3   0.7  12.1    7   WNW
 12  4   1.2  13.9    3   WNW
 12  5   1.0  11.2   11   WNW
 12  6   1.0  12.5   15   WNW
 12  7   0.5  12.5    6   WNW
 12  8   0.7  11.6   15   ESE
 12  9   0.9  10.3   24   WNW
 12 10   0.7  11.6   16   WNW
 12 11   0.7  12.1   22   WNW
 12 12   1.2  14.8   19   WNW
---------------------------------
         0.9  16.5  JAN  WNW

Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #162 on: 05 January, 2013, 08:19:02 pm »
Today felt positively balmy.
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #163 on: 08 January, 2013, 12:16:59 pm »
Today felt positively balmy.

The birds are loving it. There's a blackbird that's been singing its heart out every night this week, somewhere nearby - even at 2am. Makes a nice change from the cockerels crowing, from the council estate t'other side of the main road  ::-).

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #164 on: 11 January, 2013, 10:23:34 am »
Summary for 2012 from Eskdale - it was the wettest since records began, but I only have one year of data.... 
June 22 was quite damp.
Same weather station type as Wowbagger.
Ignore the wind data, the site is sheltered.


                         ANNUAL CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY

NAME: MountainView  CITY: Eskdale   STATE: Cumbria 
ELEV:    50 m  LAT:  54° 24' 00" N  LONG:   3° 18' 00" W

               TEMPERATURE (°C), HEAT BASE 18.3, COOL BASE 18.3
                          DEP.  HEAT  COOL                                         
        MEAN  MEAN        FROM  DEG   DEG                        MAX  MAX  MIN  MIN
 YR MO  MAX   MIN   MEAN  NORM  DAYS  DAYS  HI  DATE  LOW  DATE  >=32 <=0  <=0  <=-18
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 12  1   7.3   3.3   5.4   0.0   400     0  10.2   3  -0.6   28    0    0    2    0
 12  2   6.7   2.8   4.8   0.0   391     0  11.5  23  -3.3    3    0    0    9    0
 12  3  11.8   5.9   8.8   0.0   296     0  19.1  25   0.7    6    0    0    0    0
 12  4  11.3   4.3   7.7   0.0   318     0  16.8  30  -1.3    5    0    0    1    0
 12  5  16.6   7.8  12.2   0.0   204    15  26.6  25   0.5    5    0    0    0    0
 12  6  16.6  10.0  13.1   0.0   156     1  22.6  20   5.3    4    0    0    0    0
 12  7  18.1  11.9  14.8   0.0   113     3  22.9   5   8.0   12    0    0    0    0
 12  8  19.0  12.7  15.6   0.0    91     7  23.5  15   6.1   31    0    0    0    0
 12  9  14.9   9.2  12.3   0.0   181     0  20.5   3   3.7   22    0    0    0    0
 12 10  11.8   6.5   9.1   0.0   285     0  15.4  24   1.3   27    0    0    0    0
 12 11   8.5   4.7   6.7   0.0   348     0  12.9  20  -1.1   29    0    0    3    0
 12 12   6.9   2.8   5.0   0.0   412     0  10.8  23  -2.4    5    0    0    9    0
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        12.5   6.8   9.6   0.0  3193    27  26.6 MAY  -3.3  FEB    0    0   24    0

                                PRECIPITATION (mm)

               DEP.   MAX        DAYS OF RAIN
               FROM   OBS.          OVER
 YR MO  TOTAL  NORM   DAY  DATE  .2   2   20
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 12  1 123.0    0.0  18.0   20   23   16    0
 12  2  65.0    0.0  14.4   20   18   10    0
 12  3  40.3    0.0   8.2   16   13    8    0
 12  4  71.2    0.0  13.2    9   20   10    0
 12  5  67.8    0.0  30.8   10   12    7    1
 12  6 203.8    0.0  72.6   22   21   15    1
 12  7 170.7    0.0  26.6   24   23   17    1
 12  8 206.0    0.0  30.6    6   25   16    3
 12  9 176.4    0.0  34.0   30   24   16    2
 12 10 163.8    0.0  31.0   28   24   17    2
 12 11 136.0    0.0  27.0   22   26   19    1
 12 12 172.7    0.0  26.4   20   28   18    2
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      1596.8   0.0  72.6  JUN  257  169   13

                                WIND SPEED (m/s)
                          DOM
 YR MO   AVG.  HI   DATE  DIR
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 12  1   1.2  16.5    4   WNW
 12  2   0.8  11.2   18   WNW
 12  3   0.7  12.1    7   WNW
 12  4   1.2  13.9    3   WNW
 12  5   1.0  11.2   11   WNW
 12  6   1.0  12.5   15   WNW
 12  7   0.5  12.5    6   WNW
 12  8   0.7  11.6   15   ESE
 12  9   0.9  10.3   24   WNW
 12 10   0.7  11.6   16   WNW
 12 11   0.7  12.1   22   WNW
 12 12   1.2  14.8   19   WNW
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         0.9  16.5  JAN  WNW


Interesting that just up the road near Seascale (very close to the coast) we had nearly 250mm less rain

2012    Total Rain    Max Temp*   Ave Temp    Min Temp*    Ave Wind     Ave Wind    Ave Wind   
           (mm)         (degC)      (degC)      (degC)    Speed (m/s)  Speed (mph)  Dir (deg) 
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Jan        109.60         8.92        5.87        1.35       5.13         11.47     203.2 SSW
Feb         45.20         9.26        4.96       -0.04       3.49          7.80     178.5 S 
Mar         28.40        13.29        8.37        4.64       3.01          6.73     197.3 SSW
Apr         42.20        13.15        7.38        4.08       3.83          8.57     188.9 S 
May         58.00        21.70       11.10        5.43       3.03          6.77     207.8 SSW
Jun        189.80        15.72       12.80        9.80       3.88          8.69     196.4 SSW
Jul        150.60        17.33       14.29       12.42       3.40          7.61     198.3 SSW
Aug        179.60        18.94       15.65       11.61       3.58          8.01     171.8 S 
Sep        115.40        15.95       12.89        8.32       4.95         11.06     229.1 SW
Oct        147.00        12.80        9.52        3.33       3.53          7.90     181.4 S 
Nov        154.40        11.53        7.39        1.05       4.35          9.73     173.6 S 
Dec        131.60         8.79        5.43        0.33       4.76         10.65     176.9 S 
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Year      1351.80        21.70        9.64       -0.04       3.91          8.75     191.9 SSW
Varience   288.13                    -0.59                  -0.34         -0.76       2.7
                                                  * Refers to 24hr period average temperature


Collected from a site weather station and relayed to me as daily values, so not to quite the same resolution as Wow and ads for things like temperature
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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #165 on: 08 February, 2013, 11:22:43 pm »
I'm having problems with my googlefoo, can some one point me in the right direction of a site that will give me the average weather for the UK,
hours of sunshine, min max rainfall and all that sort of stuff :)

mcshroom

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #166 on: 10 February, 2013, 01:45:32 am »
I'm not sure if they list them explicitly, but they should be hidden in here somewhere: -

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/
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Wowbagger

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #167 on: 17 February, 2013, 10:50:30 am »
I'm having problems with my googlefoo, can some one point me in the right direction of a site that will give me the average weather for the UK,
hours of sunshine, min max rainfall and all that sort of stuff :)

A lot of the time they express the current year in terms of the percentage of the annual average, which doesn't help a lot: a year in Fort William in which 36 inches of rain fell would be half the annual average. 36 inches of rain falling on Southend in a year would be almost double the annual average.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/ukmapavge.html is an excellent resource.

Edit: you can even see climate change on that map! Select "Mean Temperature", any month and then toggle from 1961-1990, 1971-2000 and 1981-2010. The colour changes over each 10-year range change is quite dramatic.
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Wowbagger

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #168 on: 17 February, 2013, 11:07:11 am »
Looking at the mean temperatures for the start of this year, it's even colder than last!

JanFeb
20115.47.3
20126.94.8
20134.74.5

January 2013 was the coldest month I've recorded in terms of mean temperature (half-hourly readings) and so far, February is colder still. No wonder we are all getting fed up with this bloody weather!
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Wowbagger

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #169 on: 01 March, 2013, 01:57:45 pm »
Well, last month started cold and got colder!

http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/NOAA/NOAA-2013-02.txt

A final mean temperature of 3.8°C - yet there were only 5 frosts. Extraordinary.

The four days beginning 21st Feb summed the month up: daily mean temperatures of 1.7, 1.0, 0.8 and 1.7°C and a minimum temperature of 0°C over the same four days.

Without wishing ill on the good fold of Stornoway (hello Windy!) I rather resent it when they have hours of sunshine and a maximum temperature of 9°C whereas Southend has unbroken sullen cloud and a maximum of 2 or 3°C. It's like living in a gulag.
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Kim

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #170 on: 16 March, 2013, 08:13:43 pm »
And meanwhile, in between other distractions, I've acquired a B-grade WS-1080 clone from Craplin, repaired the bearing in the wind vane, supplied a several of missing screws and attached it to the top of our crumbling outside toilet.

Astoundingly, the radio link is strong enough to reach the server rack, so:




I'd take the wind readings with a vary large pinch of salt.  It's an urban area at the bottom of a valley with buildings suboptimally close on two sides.  The temperature readings seem much more accurate than my DS1820-hanging-out-a-window, which is nice, and the rain gauge works.  No idea what the random pressure glitches are about.

Wowbagger

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #171 on: 26 April, 2013, 07:54:14 am »
23.6 dec C yesterday in our garden, which was higher than the Met Office's maximum as quoted on Radio 4.
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Toady

Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #172 on: 05 June, 2013, 02:50:57 pm »
Oooh.  Clever Kim.  Let's see if I can do that ...



It works!

My connectivity has been patchy so far this year, but I'm up at the moment.

Wowbagger

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Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #173 on: 24 June, 2013, 07:01:38 pm »
All this talk of cool, wet summers is wide of the mark: this year has been cool, dry and windy.

http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/NOAA/NOAA-2013.txt refers.

So far, this month's mean temperature has been almost a degree lower than last June's but there has been about a quarter of the rain.
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Chris S

Re: The Weather Station Thread
« Reply #174 on: 24 June, 2013, 07:03:29 pm »
Not bad, considering the sun is close to maximum on its 11 year cycle.