Welcome to Phil Holmes's weather page. The station was set up on February the 18th, 2004. The weather information is taken from an Oregon Scientific WMR928N, which has a combined anemometer/wind direction indicator, a combined temperature/humidity sensor and a rain gauge, all powered by battery-backed solar power, plus 3 separate temperature sensors measuring other temperatures. I've modified the rain gauge with a larger funnel, so it is sensitive to about 0.34 mm of rain, and during August 2005 I put the anemometer on the bungalow roof-line. The information is sent to a base station in my study using radio at 433 MHz. The weather base station is connected to an IBM Thinkpad T22 laptop (bought secondhand from eBay) which is permanently on and runs Windows XP Pro. This is my 3rd weather PC. The previous one (another T22) simply failed to power on and the one before that (a Thinkpad 600) died during a lightning storm. The PC uses "Weather Display" software version 10.05d to upload the web pages. This page is custom written using the software's "custom tags" capability.
This report was produced on 03/07/2009 at 11:00 PM. The next update will be at 22:30.
| Now | Average for the last 24 hours |
Maximum today | Minimum today | Max in month | Min in month | Max in year | Min in year | Max since readings began |
Min since readings began |
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| Outside Temperature | 16.7 °C | 21.2 °C | 28.7 °C at 1:31 PM |
15.8 °C at 01:14 AM |
28.9 °C on 2/7/2009 |
10.6 °C on 2/7/2009 |
31.8 °C on 29/6/2009 |
-7.5 °C on 6/1/2009 |
34.6 °C on 26/7/2006 |
-7.5 °C on 6/1/2009 |
| Inside Temperature | 23.1 °C | 24.1 °C at 2:23 PM |
22.8 °C at 05:17 AM |
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| Outside Humidity | 64% | 97% at 07:29 AM | 30% at 1:29 PM | 97.0% | 26.0% | |||||
| Inside Humidity | 66% | |||||||||
| Barometric pressure | 1012.0 mb | 1014.0 mb at 00:01 AM |
1010.0 mb at 1:10 PM |
1024.0 mb on 1/7/2009 |
1010.0 mb on 3/7/2009 |
1037.0 mb on 17/3/2009 |
964.0 mb on 23/1/2009 |
1044.0 mb on 21/12/2006 |
963.0 mb on 10/3/2008 |
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| Average Wind speed | 0.0 mph SE | 9.6 mph NNW at 5:18 PM |
9.6 mph on 3/7/2009 |
18.7 mph on 3/3/2009 |
28.4 mph on 18/1/2007 |
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| Rainfall | 4.1 mm | 4.1 mm | 222.7 mm |
There has been 4.1 mm rain today.
There have been 0 consecutive days with no measurable* rain. Click here to see if this is common.
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And finally |
A graph of conditions over the last 24 hours: |
A plot of wind direction: |
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A graph similar to the one above for the last 48 hours is here, and for the last 72 hours is here.
If you are familiar with Newsfeeds via RSS,
there is a feed to this site which gives a summary of the weather. Click the
image for this 
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* Measurable rain on my system is ~0.3 mm - so if it very gently drizzles, I count it as a rain free day.
