| Location |
Latitude N 50° 52' 16" Longitude W 03° 08' 06" Elevation 200m |
| Near the southern end of The Blackdown Hills in East Devon Overlooking the Otter Valley a few miles NE of Honiton |
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| Hardware |
Fine Offset model WH1081 purchased from Maplin Electronics |
| Computer and operating system :- Old AMD Athlon laptop with Linux Mint 9 (based on Ubuntu 10.04) |
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| Software |
The data is gathered, processed and uploaded to this site by G-Weather (Linux software in development) G-Weather is coded in Python and uses routines from GnuPlot and ImageMagick for the graphics and images. It is based on the pywws project code developed by Jim Easterbrook. |
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The Local Terrain
This shows the location on
south facing slope of hill and to about a mile away The River Otter can be seen in the valley bottom |
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Surrounding Area
Aerial view of the surrounding area with weather station outside sensors shown by red dot |
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Closer aerial view of site
Position of outside sensors again shown by red dot. (Aerial photo taken before weather staion was set up). |
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