Oakdale Weather Station based in Blackburn, Lancashire is now up and running on the world-wide web via our new blog website. We began collecting weather data in earnest in November 2014.
The equipment we use is relatively basic: a Fine Offset weather station kit costing about £100 and including a thermometer / humidity sensor, wind gauge, rain sensor and barometer for reading pressure. The thermometer is sited in a home-made Stevenson Screen (basically a vented wooden box that protects the instruments from direct sunlight).
Being low-spec, the sensors we have are not calibrated to a high degree of accuracy, but as we are sited on the lee slope of a hillside and in the middle of a housing estate then our readings can only be a guide anyway. That said, measurements taken to date are proving reliable and, so far, what we would expect to see.
This is an amateur meteorology site and the information provided here is for interest only. We aren't forecasting the weather - for up to date forecasts for Blackburn we recommend the Met Office's Blackburn forecast.
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