About the Site

This site allows users to access current and historical weather data from sites in the village of Wold Newton in East Yorkshire and shortly, Filey in North Yorkshire.

The weather stations utilise the latest digital technology and produce data to Meterological Office standards for precision and accuracy.

The Wold Newton station location is at 54°08'25.12N, 0°23'54.43W. It has sensors for air temperature, humidity and pressure located within a Stephenson screen. An external sensor measures light level. Rainfall is measured with a tipping bucket gauge in 0.2mm increments. Wind speed and direction sensors are positioned at 10m above ground level. Data is collected every 3 seconds and the web database updated every 4 minutes.

The data available on this website is a subset of the more comprehensive set measured and recorded locally.

We hope to install a station in Filey Bay in 2012. It will have sensors for air temperature, sea surface temperature, humidity, pressure, light level, wind speed and wind direction. Data will be collected every 3 seconds and the web database updated every 4 minutes.

Archived data allows the user to view a 24 hour snapshot starting at the date and time selected. If the selected date is the current day then time axis on the graphs will only show to the current time.

Interpreting The Data

Wind speeds are the average of over 1000 measurements in a 4 minute timespan.

Gust speeds are the average measured speed over a 3 second timespan. The reported gust speed is the highest value in the last 4 minutes.

The light level can reach 180000 Lux at midday in summer. A value of 40-50000 is an indication that it is sunny.

Humidity values are generally higher at night. Values over 90% with low light levels (during daylight) are a good indication of rain or at least potential rain.

Rainfall (Wold Newton only) is the recorded rainfall in the last 4 minutes. The measurement system only records in 0.2mm increments so it will not always show a reading even though it is raining.