Here’s a rather spiffing new facility: live Parwich weather conditions on the web, as broadcast from a weather station in the centre of the village.
We have added these links to a new WEATHER section on the right hand side.
Live weather updates for Parwich.
Saturday January 10, 2009 by Mike A
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It’s quicker to put a hat and coat on and go outside and hold up a wetted finger. The connection time is frustrating, or is it my computer?
Interestingly it was very fast last night and first thing this morning, but it is slow presently. I will monitor and see what can be done. It may just be a temporary issue, since the actual upload site is in the US, and sometimes connectivity goes through sticky patches with sites hosted in the USA.
Stay with it though, it’s really good data, and could be very useful.
It is working fine now.
I wonder if there will be significant differences between the information in our weekly reports from the Weatherman on the Hill (upper Parwich, as it were) and these instant updates from our new Weatherman in the centre of the village (nether Parwich)? How much difference does 100 feet or so make?
What’s really good is that the two elements (Weatherman on the hill’s weekly summary of highs and lows, and Weatherman in Parwich’s live day to day data) are entirely complimentary, since the live data only gives the daily highs and lows etc.
Now when I’m on holiday and it’s raining and 5 degrees, I can log on to parwich.org, and know that it’s a beautiful warm summers day in Parwich!
Try this great live site at Buxton, full of good info and links!
http://www.buxtonweather.co.uk/
Weatherman in the Village, what do the indoor statistics relate to? Are they notional or for your house?
I love the live weather information – very useful when deciding how many layers to put on the children before setting off to school. Would it be possible to put a link to the current live update at the top of the page rather than down at the very bottom where it’s pretty lost?
Peter – it’s a parameter which is only meaningful to me, so consider it notional. The other one which may not be obvious is ET: evapotranspiration – what’s sometimes described as ‘reverse rainfall’ . It’s an estimate of how much evaporation there’s been, which depends on sunhine intensity, temperature etc. It’s primarily of interest to farmers etc as an indicator of likely need for irrigation and in part is dependent on the leaf area of the crop being grown – hence the inclusion of ‘transpiration’ in the term. It is a little complex to work out in detail and will vary with the crop but the standard ET calculation is intended to provide a generalised overall estimate.