On Saturday, 21 November 2015 15:21:37 UTC, Norman wrote:
xmetman wrote:

On Saturday, 21 November 2015 09:14:58 UTC, Ken Cook wrote:
Hi, All,
First snow lying of the season this morning. Just 6cm but frozen solid,
ground instruments proving difficult to read, it's far too early in the
winter for this!

COPLEY MET. OFFICE SITE manual readings 09hr 21st November, Wind NW 15
knots (force 4) gusting 20 knots. Visibility 10 miles. Few clouds.
Temperature -1°C Humidity 70%. Barometer (adjusted to sea level) 1011mb
rising. Maximum today -0.6°C Last night's minimum -0.9°C Grass minimum
-3.1°C 30cm earth 7.7°C Past 24 hours' precipitation 5.3mm Sun today
0.4hr Highest gust today 41knots (47mph). 6cm snow

Have to go out now, will update later.
Ken
Copley
Teesdale

Ken

Did you know weather observations were made for a good number of years at
Forest-in-Teesdale? When I was an observer at Leeming in 1970, we used to
ring the the two old sisters (I think it was) every hour through the day at
the Post office they used to run their. The WMO station number was 03237, and
I seemed to think that they got an award because they did it for many years
as volunteers.

I was just trying to find the exact location using Google Maps and think it
maybe just off the B6277 on the right as you're going towards Alston.

Bruce.

Hi Bruce,

According to NCDC, Forest (Stn. No. 03237) is at 54.65 deg N, 002.2 deg W..
The NCDC database contains obs from there from Jan 1973 to Apr 1979

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org

Norman

Yes that's the one.

I've fine tuned it a little by guessing which house the post office might have been, so I make it 54.659571 lat and -2.199077 lon to be exact!

The original lat and lon values you quote and I also had put it at the bottom of a deep quarry good old Met Office!

Bruce.