About Oakdale Weather Station

Oakdale Weather Station is based in Blackburn, Lancashire, UK. We are an amateur meteorology site using an entry-level Fine Offset weather station and our data is analysed with Cumulus software. The site is intended for anyone interested in seeing what the weather has been like in our area and we welcome your feedback. Please note we aren't forecasting the weather - for up to date forecasts for Blackburn we recommend the Met Office's Blackburn forecast.


Tuesday, 31 March 2015

A wild end to the month

Very blustery during the night with some strong winds to test our anemometer.  The forecast suggested 40-50mph, but it looks like we've peaked at around 38mph.  I'm sure our high wind recordings are suppressed by where we are though - we're in the lee of a hill and the other buildings around will have an effect.  One thing's sure though, it was quite tricky walking around at lunchtime.

We've had several heavy showers too, making it the windiest and wettest day 'on record' (for us at least!) - it's a wild end to what's been a fairly well-behaved month.
31 Mar Dashboard

Temperature
Maximum: 8.3°c (00:01) minimum: 3.6°c (18:31).  Average temperature for the day: 5.5°c
Highest apparent temperature: 1.7°c (00:21).  Low apparent temperature: -6.6°c (15:31)

Wind
Highest sustained wind speed: 32.2mph (15:31).
Highest gust speed: 38.0mph (15:21), bearing 270 (W)
Dominant wind bearing: 270 (W)

Pressure
Maximum: 1019.6Mb, minimum: 993.5Mb

Humidity
Highest: 87% (00:01), lowest 58% (16:21)

Rainfall
Total for today: 2.4mm. Highest hourly rainfall: 4.2mm/hr (00:11)

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