Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Automatic Weather Station at Honister
We found this weather station on Fleetwith Pike. I looked up the brand https://www.vaisala.com/en/products/instruments-sensors-and-other-measurement-devices/weather-stations-and-sensors This station doesn't seem to have a wind speed recorder and there is no obvious rain gauge. I was thinking that weather records up here would just be a nice thing to have, but then I found that they might be of use in modern climate research https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268469950_Extreme_rainfall_in_Cumbria_November_2009_-_an_assessment_of_storm_rarity Thus far I have only read the abstract but it promises to show that even short term rain records can help to estimate storm frequency in uplands.