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About the stationThe Windrush Weather Station is situated on the eastern edge of the town some 144 metres above sea level where I have been making accurate weather observations since 1984. My weather station consists of a Davis wireless VP2 electronic unit placed away from buildings, up the garden. An anemometer with weather vain unit is sited on a restrained pole 4 metres above ridge height of the building. I collect readings on wind, temperature, humidity and rain. The data is transmitted every two seconds to my indoor console and later downloaded to a computer for recording and analysis. The daily readings are taken at 0800 GMT. This website is updated frequently with the latest statistics. I often receive requests for more detailed information from students, academics, professionals and other amateur meteorologists.
- About MarlboroughMarlborough, in the north east corner of Wiltshire, is the archetypical English market town – a place where coins were minted in Norman times, Tudor kings hunted for deer and where coaches heading west from London stopped to feed and water their horses. It would seem therefore, that Marlborough was at the heart of things in days gone by. And although Britain’s coins are now turned out in London, the coaches fill up with diesel and your venison comes straight from one of the town’s splendid butchers, Marlborough still is a town with a big buzz. The town displays the confidence of wealth from times past, yet today remains vibrant and progressive with its own chic café culture Site of a twice-weekly market, the High Street is one of the widest in Europe and lined on both sides with characterful old buildings housing an array of high quality shops. The Merchant’s House – one of the finest 17th century middle-class homes open to visitors in England – is also to be found here and contains a wealth of period features, paintings and artefacts. The cosmopolitan flavour of the town is greatly enhanced by the annual International Jazz Festival which takes…
- About meMy fascination with the weather and the collection of weather related data started as a teenager using an outdoor maximum/minimum thermometer and simple domestic wall barometer with the results plotted manually on sheets of graph paper glued end to end. I have lived in Marlborough since 1964 and with the later prospect of being resident here for a considerable time I started my accurate collection of data in 1984 using a Stevenson screen holding the basic manually read instruments. An electronic, wired system installed in 1994 meant that data could be collected continuously via a computer, regardless of holidays. The most advanced and sophisticated wireless station was installed in 2009 allowing a slightly improved siting, meteorologically, with the relay of live data to an indoor monitor and again downloaded to a computer. With data stretching back to 1984 the interest grows as meaningful comparisons can now be made with a standard 20-year period. Climate change also makes the hobby topical and relevant.

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