Blackdown Hills Weather

Station Location & Other Information


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
 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)
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.

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
terrain
Surrounding Area

Aerial view of the
surrounding area with
weather station outside
sensors shown by red dot
area
Closer aerial view of site

Position of outside sensors
again shown by red dot.
(Aerial photo taken before
weather staion was set up).
location

Updeated - 4th September 2010