I started St Nicholas Weather in 2021 as a hobby. The station initially was comprised of a 5-in-1 integrated set of instruments. Since then, a full replacement of the sensor suite has enabled collection of solar radiation data and increased the accuracy of readings.
Our data is held and processed by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium‘s open-source observation, data collection and API programme (WOW-BE). We aim to fully comply with UK and European guidelines for weather station operators. As part of this, we outline data about our station below:
- Location: 51.45739108176147, -3.307150433481639
- Site elevation: 104 metres above median sea level
- Sensor height above ground: 3 metres
- Site classification: WMO Class 4
- Installation: Semi-rural | Mounted on pole
- Sensor types: air temperature and relative humidity (%RH) sensors located within a ventilated radiation shield, ultrasonic anemometer, piezoelectric rain sensor, solar radiation and UV sensor
- Backhaul: FTTP backhaul (connected to sensor suite via Wi-Fi and RF)
- Sharing info: Open source with API available at https://wow.meteo.be/docs/api | Site ID: 019ba322-7c54-713a-bab6-e1b9eea1c2f7