How to make your weather observations as good as they can be.
LOCATION
1 Inverness Campus
Inverness
Highland
IV2 5NA
United Kingdom
SPEAKER: Dr Geoff Jenkins, Royal Meteorological Society.
ABSTRACT:For anyone with an interest in the weather, making your own observations will afford years of fascination, and there has never been a better time to start observing or upgrade the measurements you already make. Traditional manual instruments can be bought at budget prices online, and there is now a wide range of wireless automatic weather stations (AWS) readily available from £50 to £1000 or more – even those at the lower end are surprisingly good and with a few tweaks can be improved, with lots of online forums and blogs to help you. Most AWS can communicate with your PC, which can store the data and also send it on to weather networks such as the Met Office’s Weather Observations Website or Wunderground, where you can see it live online. This allows you to compare your observations with many others locally and nationally, to investigate microclimates, for example, or the movement of fronts. And you don’t need a large open estate; you can make useful observations from a tiny garden in suburbia (like mine) or the inner city. This talk will discuss all of the above.
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The meeting will be held at Inverness College UHI, 1 Inverness Campus, IV2 5NA starting at 7 pm, with tea and coffee available from 6:30 pm. The talk may also be broadcast to other UHI venues via UHI's video conferencing technology, making it possible to hear the talk and participate in the discussion afterwards from another UHI venue (see http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/campuses for venues). No registration is necessary for attendance at the Inverness venue, however to register to attend at another UHI venue, or for further information, please email shona.mackie@bristol.ac.uk.
Please mention this meeting to friends and colleagues, since non-members of the Society are very welcome at our meetings. However, please consider joining if you can because without our membership support we would not be able to hold these meetings.
SPEAKER: Dr Geoff Jenkins, Royal Meteorological Society.
ABSTRACT:For anyone with an interest in the weather, making your own observations will afford years of fascination, and there has never been a better time to start observing or upgrade the measurements you already make. Traditional manual instruments can be bought at budget prices online, and there is now a wide range of wireless automatic weather stations (AWS) readily available from £50 to £1000 or more – even those at the lower end are surprisingly good and with a few tweaks can be improved, with lots of online forums and blogs to help you. Most AWS can communicate with your PC, which can store the data and also send it on to weather networks such as the Met Office’s Weather Observations Website or Wunderground, where you can see it live online. This allows you to compare your observations with many others locally and nationally, to investigate microclimates, for example, or the movement of fronts. And you don’t need a large open estate; you can make useful observations from a tiny garden in suburbia (like mine) or the inner city. This talk will discuss all of the above.
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The meeting will be held at Inverness College UHI, 1 Inverness Campus, IV2 5NA starting at 7 pm, with tea and coffee available from 6:30 pm. The talk may also be broadcast to other UHI venues via UHI's video conferencing technology, making it possible to hear the talk and participate in the discussion afterwards from another UHI venue (see http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/campuses for venues). No registration is necessary for attendance at the Inverness venue, however to register to attend at another UHI venue, or for further information, please email shona.mackie@bristol.ac.uk.
Please mention this meeting to friends and colleagues, since non-members of the Society are very welcome at our meetings. However, please consider joining if you can because without our membership support we would not be able to hold these meetings.