[HSEA2]

John Robert Mellor, on 01 March 2012 - 17:29, said:

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

Beat me to it!

I had long thought Buckinghamshire didnt have any, Woburn being beds i think, although High Wycombe maybe bucks. Grendon Underwood closed down in the early 2000s i think.

[HSEA2]

BUTTERFLY, on 01 March 2012 - 15:48, said:

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.

Ballykelly seems to be still going as of Feb 2012.





Lots of other stations have dissapeared since i first got into an interest in meteorology though...

[HSEA2]

Looking at Carmoneys 1971-2000 data, Derry must have the coldest summers for a city of its size anywhere in the British Isles with a mean max of below 18c in both Jul and Aug - even Aberdeen and Inverness beat that.

[Dave K]

HSEA2, on 01 March 2012 - 17:34, said:

Beat me to it!

I had long thought Buckinghamshire didnt have any, Woburn being beds i think, although High Wycombe maybe bucks. Grendon Underwood closed down in the early 2000s i think.

Yes High Wycombe is in Bucks but it is the only UKMO station in the entire county, you'd think there'd be one near Milton Keynes, though I suppose they'd argue Woburn is near enough

This post has been edited by Big Dave's Gusset: 01 March 2012 - 17:56

[Dave W]

Winter Hill and Cromdale have been around awhile I think?

For us near Brighton 'South Coast Power' is new -ie) Shoreham Power station. No proper data seems available yet though! Number is 03889

[diddy12345]

HSEA2, on 01 March 2012 - 17:30, said:

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.

I cant agree more. lol

I didn't know about Buntingford.

I don't think it appears on the met office web page.

[BUTTERFLY]

"Ballykelly seems to be still going as of Feb 2012."

It may still be going but values do not seem to appear on-line; perhaps it is no longer automated.

[HSEA2]

The Hull park east and west stations seem to be some kind of project (presumably temporary) to measure for any UHI.

Browsing the Met Office library catalogue, the one thing i notice is the proliferation of short span records. There really arent all that many sites that span decades.

[StratoQ]

Giant's Causeway features today on the Met Office website with max of 21.4 C (almost equalling the NI record at Armagh of 21.7).

Does anyone know if that site is related to or same as this site run by Queen's University, here? :

http://www.qub.ac.uk...portedStations/

From looking at that page, the QUB site is run using Davis Vantage equipment. Does that mean the data from the Davis is acceptable to the Met Office? Or are there other sensing equipment in operation there?

I know many climate sites operate two systems in tandem (ie conventional met equipment + automatic AWS such as a Davis etc.)

[StratoQ]

Ok Ive done some more research and there does appear to be two separate streams of data emenating from Giants Causeway.

1) which looks like the official data : http://www.weatherca...bsid/99188.html

And

2) which is the (Davis) data you get when following the QUB website. http://www.wundergro...sp?ID=IMOYLEBU2

[Ian Williams]

StratoQ, on 27 March 2012 - 20:31, said:

Giant's Causeway features today on the Met Office website with max of 21.4 C (almost equalling the NI record at Armagh of 21.7).

Does anyone know if that site is related to or same as this site run by Queen's University, here? :

http://www.qub.ac.uk...portedStations/

From looking at that page, the QUB site is run using Davis Vantage equipment. Does that mean the data from the Davis is acceptable to the Met Office? Or are there other sensing equipment in operation there?

I know many climate sites operate two systems in tandem (ie conventional met equipment + automatic AWS such as a Davis etc.)

Pretty sure they are separate, I can not see UKMO accepting readings from VP2, what with their stringent requirements, i,e Stevenson screens etc

Delving further they definitely are not the link you give above gives a maximum of 21.2C whereas the hourly max for Giants Causeway is at least 21.4C

http://www.wetter24....bsid/99188.html

This post has been edited by Ian Williams: 27 March 2012 - 22:39

[Wiseacre]

A number of new stations have appeared on the Weathercast pages recently:

Stowe (99192) near Buckingham
Elphin (99153) in NW Scotland
Scarborough (99142)
Nantwich Reaseheath Hall (99179)
Scolton Country Park (99184) SW Wales
Whitechurch (99174) SW Wales

[Dave W]

Most have been there for the last 6 months plus in fact..though not seen Stowe before

[Wiseacre]

A couple of new stations on Weathercast:


Wellesbourne (Warwickshire 99189)

Eton Dorney (Surrey 99102) - this is another of the Olympic venues

[PJB]

A couple of changes -



Woodford has been removed from the Synop Network 03348

and ROSTHERNE has been added 03351

[Dave K]

PJB, on 02 December 2012 - 21:59, said:

A couple of changes -



Woodford has been removed from the Synop Network 03348

and ROSTHERNE has been added 03351

It would be interesting to know why stations are removed, for example if the siting is no longer suitable for some reason. I don't suppose we will know though!

[Wiseacre]

Two recent additions in Wales to the Weathercast pages

Libanus (in Brecon)

Swyddffynnon (nr Aberystwyth)

With regard to the Woodford station, why could the MetO not return to Ringway where a 50 year record exists?

[HSEA3]

Damn you guys are quick...i only noticed Rostherne today after seeing it in the Rmets weather journal and todays snow depth reports...seems like only yesterday Woodford replaced Ringway too.