Interpreting the Data
Thursday 22nd
April 2004. The official opening day of the weather station.
The weather station is situated in the grounds
of Ribblehead Railway Station on the Settle to Carlisle Railway at an
altitude of 310m above sea level
The system includes a data logger which
records all the readings and stores them until they are downloaded and
stored. The data logger started to record rainfall at Ribblehead on the
21st March 2004.
Rainfall
The daily rainfall is measured from 12 midnight to 11:59:59 pm
the following evening.
The accumulated rainfall shows the total rainfall from the last time the
data logger was reset. The latest date and time is shown below.
Next System Reset and
Data Download
30th June 2003
Indoor Temperature
Indoor temperatures apply to
temperatures inside the station buildings close to the Exhibition Centre and
are given as a sensible reference point between the comfortable quarters
which were required to shelter the travellers against the inhospitable
weather conditions experienced here during the winter months in particular.
Dates for Maximum and
Minimum Recorded
Dates are shown in reverse order, that is year-month-day order. 24 hour
clock times are displayed. |