The Knaphillian

Recently I stumbled across (via Google) a very comprehensive weather station based in Knaphill (Alexandra Gardens I believe) providing a live data stream to the national weather grid. The data can be seen graphically on the guy's personal website:

http://www.sangwell.com/weather  

There's wind speed/direction, temperature, cloud-base, solar, rainfall, humidity and pressure. Everything could want really apart from depth of snow. He recently added a webcam to the site although the view is not spectacular.

Anyway I thought it worth passing on this web-gem.

Cracking find.

My friend Paul, who used to live in Horsell (am I allowed to mention Horsell?), reckons that Woking has its own micro-climate.

Just put the recycling out and, if it helps, it's still cold. Doesn't feel as cold as last night but I wouldn't venture out in flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt just yet (unless you are from the t'grim north east in which case it's positively tropical).

There should be a competition for best snowman in Knaphill. I don't want to brag but mine is belting.

I own that weather site, thanks for the complements.

You're right about it being located in Alexandra Gardens - in fact the station is bolted to the gable end of the house and wirelessly transmits to a reciever which posts condtions to the web. Its been up and running for a few years - you can see an archive of weather conditions on Weather Underground. There's also a time-lapse video of each day.

The webcam is angled to show current weather conditions; works fine during the day but suffers too much light polution at night. I could point it lower, but the view isn't any more exciting :-)

Its interesting Paul recons there is a micro-climate - I'm thinking of getting some weather modelling software which takes the live feed (plus feeds from other stations around the SE) and the computes a forecast for the specific area. I'll post here if/when I get round to it - a Knaphill-specific forecast sounds good, but how accurate will it be?

...but can the software predict if the buses are running?

I have my doubts :-)