Hi all,

I was just wondering if someone could help me out.

I'm looking to set up a weather station, but due to commitments would
only be able to take recordings at 10pm each evening. So if my 24 hour
climatological day ended at 10pm each evening, would this make my
observations any different/ less accurate/ less reliable than by using
the usual 6-6 climatological day?

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know. I realise it could be
a very silly question.....

Luke

Personally, as long as you are consistent, i would see no problem in this.
If you are just looking to record the weather for yourself then this is
fine. The readings would still be quite accurate.

Mike

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Hi all,

I was just wondering if someone could help me out.

I'm looking to set up a weather station, but due to commitments would
only be able to take recordings at 10pm each evening. So if my 24 hour
climatological day ended at 10pm each evening, would this make my
observations any different/ less accurate/ less reliable than by using
the usual 6-6 climatological day?

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know. I realise it could be
a very silly question.....

Luke

wrote:

I'm looking to set up a weather station, but due to commitments would
only be able to take recordings at 10pm each evening. So if my 24 hour
climatological day ended at 10pm each evening, would this make my
observations any different/ less accurate/ less reliable than by using
the usual 6-6 climatological day?

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know. I realise it could be
a very silly question.....


But it isn't, really.
As I understand it, the usual 'day' is 0900-0900 UT (not 6-6).

An obvious problem you might have is with rainfall.
Your 'day' would be different so might not be directly comparable with someone
else's 'day' (for a given date). But if you only want to compare with your own
data, than that would not matter.
With temperatures, you might be able to assign your min. and max. to the
'correct' day, even if recording them at 2200.

As someone else has mentioned, consistency is the thing, so 2200 UT means 2200
UT, not 2200 UT in the winter and 2200 BST in the summer.

HTH

--
Gianna

http://www.buchan-meteo.org.uk
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In uk.sci.weather on Wed, 2 May 2007, wrote :
Hi all,

I was just wondering if someone could help me out.

I'm looking to set up a weather station, but due to commitments would
only be able to take recordings at 10pm each evening. So if my 24 hour
climatological day ended at 10pm each evening, would this make my
observations any different/ less accurate/ less reliable than by using
the usual 6-6 climatological day?

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know. I realise it could be
a very silly question.....

You could always get a weather station that logs temperature/RH/pressure
at set intervals (uploadable to PC) - that way you'd avoid the problem
with observation times.

I recently bought the LaCrosse WS3500 which I now use for this.

BTW, what part of the country are you in - maybe it's somewhere we lack
data from, currently?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On 2 May, 19:13, Paul Hyett wrote:
In uk.sci.weather on Wed, 2 May 2007, wrote :

Hi all,

I was just wondering if someone could help me out.

I'm looking to set up a weather station, but due to commitments would
only be able to take recordings at 10pm each evening. So if my 24 hour
climatological day ended at 10pm each evening, would this make my
observations any different/ less accurate/ less reliable than by using
the usual 6-6 climatological day?

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know. I realise it could be
a very silly question.....

You could always get a weather station that logs temperature/RH/pressure
at set intervals (uploadable to PC) - that way you'd avoid the problem
with observation times.

I recently bought the LaCrosse WS3500 which I now use for this.

BTW, what part of the country are you in - maybe it's somewhere we lack
data from, currently?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Thanks for all your help guys.

I live in South West Cornwall, so I think you have a few people around
this area already reporting.

I just looked up the LaCross station you mentioned, it looks pretty
good. Are there any other stations in that kind of price bracket that
you would recommend? And does it log data for the day and the reset
the console ready for the next day?

Thanks for your help,

Luke

I live in South West Cornwall, so I think you have a few people around
this area already reporting.


Luke,

Which bit of SW Cornwall?

Graham
Penzance

Penzance Weather www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/weather.html

In uk.sci.weather on Thu, 3 May 2007, Luke
wrote :

Thanks for all your help guys.

I live in South West Cornwall, so I think you have a few people around
this area already reporting.

OK.

I just looked up the LaCross station you mentioned, it looks pretty
good.

I got it from http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/ if that's any help.

Are there any other stations in that kind of price bracket that
you would recommend? And does it log data for the day and the reset
the console ready for the next day?

It logs up to 1750 datasets, which if you use 5 min intervals, is 6 days
worth of readings.

You have to manually reset the accumulated highs/lows, but it does have
a constant display of the midnight-midnight max & min, which resets
automatically.

Try this for more info :

http://www.lacrossetechnology.fr/ima.../WS3500_EN.swf
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)