[Dave K]

I presume these are brand new stations on the network rather than newly automated ex manual ones. Any more around the country that anyone has noticed?

99182, Frittenden, Kent  ( near Cranbrook ).

99154, Wych Cross, East Sussex, ( near Forest Row ).


Last time the Met Office website was update with station network was May 2010, so these could have appeared any time in the last 10 months.  http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/networks/

[PJB]

They are newly automated stations - not newly added stations. they are part of the UK CLimate Network which is slowly being upgraded to be more automated and have the ability to deliver hourly or more frequent observations.

[Dave K]

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PJB - 15/3/2011 14:49 They are newly automated stations - not newly added stations. they are part of the UK CLimate Network which is slowly being upgraded to be more automated and have the ability to deliver hourly or more frequent observations.

Thanks Paul, are they fully accepted as MetO standard so far as weather records are concerned?

[PJB]

well yes - they are part of their climate network - some of them have been around for a number of years. This is more updating the technology.

[Southweather]

I know the owner of the Frittenden one - he had it installed during the past few months.

[Southweather]

I see the MetO maps have been updated to include a large number of new stations, including Frittenden.

[Dave W]

Another new station i see is Charsfield nr Wattisham

[BUTTERFLY]

http://www.metoffice...images/map3.gif shows a white dor representing one (non-automatic) station near Annaghmore and Peatlands Park, with no name beside it. I think this is Loughgall Research Station about 5 miles NE of Armagh.

[HSEA]

Might be interesting to compare the current coverage to that of 10 years ago. For my area Cambridgeshire has lost March, Mepal, Marholm, Terrington, Cambridge Guildhall and Boxworth, and no new stations have been added :(

 

Norfolk has lost Hemsby, Lowestoft, Melton Constable, Coltishall and Morley, and gained Norwich Airport, Houghton Hall and Lingwood 

 

Suffolk has lost Honington.

 

2001

 

2011

[HSEA]

If 2001 pcicture doesnt open taken from here

 

http://replay.web.ar...et2_jan2001.gif

 

and also saved here

 

http://imageshack.us...et2jan2001.jpg/

 

 

[HSEA2]

Seems that as of 14th November 2011 the Cottesmore weather station has closed.

http://www.elexon.co...s/SVG130_10.pdf


Since the 14 November, the Supplier Volume Allocation Agent (SVAA) has not been receiving temperature
data from the Met. Office for the back-up weather site of Cottesmore in the East Midlands GSP Group _B.
The Met Office has now informed the SVAA that this site has now closed, and that an alternative site of RAF
Wittering is available.

[PJB]

Yes - I posted this elsehwere - cant recall where though at this point...

[Ian Williams]

PJB, on 07 December 2011 - 14:45, said:

Yes - I posted this elsehwere - cant recall where though at this point...

http://www.ukweather...__1#entry774749

[PJB]

thanks Ian !

[HSEA2]

Apologies, must have missed it.

[HSEA2]

Looks like a buttload more stations have been added, unfortunately waybackwhen doesnt seem to have archived the previous images of that URL (maybe someone can access an old google cache of that metoffice page), so im not entirely sure which are new, but ive never noticed before;

Hull East Park
Hull West Park
Leeds University
Manchester University
Winter Hill
Linkinhorne
Holne, Priddons Farm
Kenton, High Garden
Lapford
Westonzoyland



SCOTLAND
Resallach
Achfary
Achiltibuie
Dunrobin Castle Gardens
Cromdale
Oyne
Aberdeen, Mannofield Resv.
Orkney, loch of Hundland
Crombie, Country Park


N.Ireland

Magilligan
Giants Causeway
Derrygonnelly
Derrylin
Peatlands


Still a large town like Middlesbrough has no weather station though!

[BUTTERFLY]

Does anyone know if Ballykelly, Co. Londonderry, a site which has been going for many years (it recorded a very low temperature in early March 1947 so must have been going by then) is still going? Readings from it seem to have disappeared from the Met Office and other weather websites where it used to appear, to be replace by Magilligan above, but I am fairly sure I saw it mentioned after this on the TV a few weeks or so ago. Eglinton is not far away and in a similar sheltered lowland situation near the shore of Lough Foyle, but Ballykelly more often seemed to give higher temperatures, especially outside the warmest months.

[diddy12345]

interesting post.

This has me thinking, why does Hertfordshire not have any weather stations ?

The nearest to me is Andrewsfield (in Essex), why ?

maybe everyone in Hertfordshire is sub human. lol

[John Robert Mellor]

diddy12345, on 01 March 2012 - 15:51, said:

interesting post.

This has me thinking, why does Hertfordshire not have any weather stations ?

The nearest to me is Andrewsfield (in Essex), why ?

maybe everyone in Hertfordshire is sub human. lol

There are 2 Climate stations in Hertfordshire, at Rothamstead and Buntingford.

[HSEA2]

diddy12345, on 01 March 2012 - 15:51, said:

interesting post.

This has me thinking, why does Hertfordshire not have any weather stations ?

The nearest to me is Andrewsfield (in Essex), why ?

maybe everyone in Hertfordshire is sub human. lol

Rothamsted is in Hertfordshire, as is buntingford...

But you are right, everyone in Hertfordshire is most certainly subhuman. Particularly at the Galleria over the A1M, full of zombies there.