Late Availability for Spring Courses

New staff for 2012

Recently we have welcomed new staff to the Centre. Luke Yates and Ade Ogunboro have joined as part of the domestic team to help in the day to day running of the centre. Becky Casson has been involved with the FSC trainee tutor scheme, and will join the existing education members in delivering many courses including Geography and Biology. We would like to extent a warm welcome from the Malham team.

Ade Ogunboro

Becky Casson

Luke Yates

 

Spring Weather 2012

March and April have had some of the most extreme weather conditions people can remember for a long time. March has been one of the hottest and with 6foot snow drifts in April, the weather has been very unpredictable for all up at the Tarn. Every day of the year since 1959, we have recorded the weather from our Met Office Pen on the north shore of Malham Tarn. We then send the data to the Met Office so they can use the data to monitor any changes in the climate. 

The start of April brought snow however combined with strong winds drifts of snow accumulated on roads up to 6 foot deep in places, making it challenging for people to get around.

See below for some of the records for March.

• the warmest March days ever, 19.1°C on the 27^th and 28^th – the previous record was 18.9°C on March 29^th 1965
• the highest average maximum temperature (10.2°C) for March ever – the previous highest was 9.4°C March 2003
• the second highest hours of sunshine (123.6 hours) for March – highest was March 2003 with 154,1 hours
• the 4^th lowest rainfall (40mm) for March, the driest was March 1993 – 26.3mm, 2^nd driest March 2011 36.2mm and 3^rd driest March 1996 37.8mm

(ever for Malham Tarn starts in 1959 – when we started doing Met readings)

Ingleborough on one of the warmest days, March 28th.