Weather

Weather station location:
Latitude N 51° 11' 19"
Longitude W 3° 33' 32"

Height above sea level: 330 feet, (100 metres).

The reporting day begins and ends at midnight.

For current and archived weather observations from this site you can either go to my Weather Underground or Met Office WOW (weather observation website) pages. 

 I am now using the excellent Cumulus software to update the weather data on a regular basis. You can view the recently downloaded data as well as archived data by clicking the Met Office 'WOW' or Weather Underground links above.

There are two wireless weather stations in operation at this location. They are both of the "Fine Offset" type, the sensors measuring outdoor temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction and rainfall being located outdoors, with data being sent via a wireless link to consoles indoors, which have usb connections allowing processing of the information using appropriate weather software.

The first station is a Clas Ohlson WH1080 on 868 Mhz, the console of which I connect to my PC daily in order to download the weather data to the Cumulus weather software, which in turn uploads and updates the information on my Weather Underground and Met. Office WOW pages, allowing an archive of Luccombe's weather to be available to anyone.The second station is a Maplin N96GY on 433.9 mHz. This is not connected to any internet service at present, but is available as a back-up. The previous set-up used a "Raspberry Pi" mini-computer and "pywws" software to provide continuous updates, but this became so unreliable that I had to stop using it.

The outdoor sensors are mounted in a home-made screen using ventilation panels which are readily available from builder's merchants.

A full view of the outside equipment. The anemometer and wind vane heads are mounted on a pole about 10 feet high. The rainfall sensors are mounted on the horizontal bar which is 2 feet above ground level. Recent changes have been made in order to provide greater stability and improve the neatness of the installation.

This photograph was taken at the time of maximum magnitude of the partial solar eclipse on March 20th 2015.