Brambletye's Weather Station

Where is the Brambletye Weather Station?

The weather station is to be found on the top of the cylindrical stairwell of The Blencowe Centre.

What sort of weather station is it?

Our weather station is a Rainwise WS-2000 MkIII wireless station.  It has a solar panel to supply it with electricity and it transmits the data live to a computer in the Geography Room.   From here the data is sent out onto the web and to a display screen in the Geography Room.

What data does the weather station collect?

The weather station collects temperature, humidity, air pressure, rainfall, wind speed, wind direction and wind chill.  The data is stored on the weather computer and daily, weekly, monthly and annual means, maximums and minimums are calculated as well as trends.

The weather station collects information all day every day and the screen in the Geography Room is updated every second from the weather station.  The data from the weather computer is exported to the web every 5 minutes.

We are also now linked to Weather Underground (see right).

Click here to see data for the last 24hrs

Click here for a smaller version
(suitable for Smartphones and I-Phones)

 

 

 


The Brambletye Weather Station can be seen from the front school drive

 

What data does the Weather Station collect?

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Variable

Unit

Range

Equipment
Temperature °C  -50°C - +50°C temperature probe
Relative Humidity % 0% -100% humidity probe
Wind Speed kph 0 - 160 kph anemometer
Wind Direction compass direction n/a wind vane
Air Pressure mb 900-1200 barometer
Rainfall mm n/a rain gauge

 

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Current Weather

Local Weekly Forecast

Weather Underground enables Brambletye to have a local 6-day forecast. For us, this uses information from Gatwick Airport. The most up-to-date one is shown below.

 

Weather Underground

Weather Underground PWS IWESTSUS39 Weather Underground is a global network of personal weather stations which provides local weather data and forecasting tools.  Old Brambletyean Toby Skinner works in the US Headquarters of the company.
Brambletye weather data is uploaded regularly to the Weather Underground database.  This website stores our data and enables it to be compared to other weather stations around the world using the Wundermap.  This displays the weather data on an interactive Google Maps base.  
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