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Malham Tarn Field Centre, situated near Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Follow this blog to keep up to date with current goings on at the Tarn.
The centre is run by the Field Studies Council and is popular with both geography and biology students, as well as the wider public. Opened in 1947, the Centre celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007.Within walking distance of the Centre are famous limestone features including Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and spectacular karst landscapes. The route of the Pennine Way footpath runs very close to the buildings. Nearby habitats include limestone pavement, grazed and ungrazed grassland, woodland and species-rich fen, acid peat pools and stony hill streams. Malham Tarn itself is one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe.

For more information please go to
http://www.field-studies-council.org/malhamtarn/index.aspx




Monday, 16 April 2012

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 27th and 28th – the previous record was 18.9°C on March 29th 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 4th lowest rainfall (40mm) for March, the driest was March 1993 – 26.3mm, 2nd driest March 2011 36.2mm and 3rd 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.





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