Automatic Weather Station

As a local resident of Carleton in Craven and weather enthusiast, Lee Schofield has recently set up a new automatic weather station at Malham Tarn. This is a very exciting addition to the daily manual weather observations, already recorded at our Met Pen. The below information, which has been written by Lee, explains the weather network he has already set up. We would like to take the opportunity to thank Lee, for installing the weather station at the Tarn.

Lee Schofield said ''The automatic weather station at Malham Tarn forms part of my expanding network of remote observation sites situation at various points across The Yorkshire Dales & Skipton area.

The weather stations records Air temperature, Relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction, wind chill, dew point and air pressure along with 24hr maximum and minimum observations.

There are 19 observation sites currently in  operation all uploading data via the internet to my website http://www.thelocalweather.co.uk/  I have plans to expand the network further over the coming months with new weather stations planned in Wensleydale at Askrigg and at Howgill close to Burnsall in Upper Wharfedale.

The whole network is funded and maintained by myself as a service to locals and those planning a day out in the area.

I also upload to Facebook & Twitter a 24hour weather forecast for the area each day this can be seen on Facebook by following Craven Weather or on twitter @craven weather.''