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I'd be very grateful if anyone can provide me a year's worth of datafiles (ie ideally Jan- Dec, but any 12 month set, for anywhere!) or a link to any repository/ web store of such.
I'm playing with ideas for new ways to display data and/or show correlations and have only my own data since 15 Sept!.

Sure

You want the dayfile or each monthly file?

Monthly, ideally. (But I can concatenate data from dayfiles I suppose)
Thanx for quick response! Looks like a great community here..

Here are the monthly log files for all of 2009.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33488/20009log.zip

Format of the file is here (but I am sure you know that already)
http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Monthly_log_files

It is a lot of data as it contains readings every 10 minutes, so around 52,500 entries

Many thanks. Now I can play!
Will be interesting seeing data from your area- we have a very 'soft' climate down here in the West Country- Somerset.

tenochtitlanuk wrote:Will be interesting seeing data from your area- we have a very 'soft' climate down here in the West Country- Somerset.

In winter, Grantown is one of the coldest inhabited places in the UK - we lived not far from there for a while before we moved here.

steve wrote:

tenochtitlanuk wrote:Will be interesting seeing data from your area- we have a very 'soft' climate down here in the West Country- Somerset.

In winter, Grantown is one of the coldest inhabited places in the UK - we lived not far from there for a while before we moved here.

We have had a few -17C's in recent years -- very low for the UK. Grantown is almost at the foot of the Cairngorm mountain range. We had snow "on the hills" until the start of August, then it all disappeared for a few weeks. We then had snow fall last weekend.

Keep us posted on what you are up to with the data!

Quick summary of your year...
http://www.diga.me.uk/weather/images/JanToDec.gif
Happy memories of mountain-skiing in the Cairngorms and Ffannichs.
Mind you, the last two winters were VERY unusually severe down here- but nowhere near yours.
I'll obviously need to re-scale my software- I'd not yet really thought what ranges to expect!

You may be interested in our more "warm" data records. :D

Please take a look at: http://www.yv5fih.org.ve/Base_de_datos_CvM.html virtual Meteorology Center data base.

Muchas gracias por el enlace. Quizas algun dia visitare Venezuela!
It's a small world...

You (and others too!) will be welcomed to our country.

Regards,

tenochtitlanuk wrote:Quick summary of your year...
http://www.diga.me.uk/weather/images/JanToDec.gif

Just a thought, but the dayfile.txt might be best for plotting these graphs? Data every 10 mins might be excessive if you are plotting highs and lows of each day (which is summarised in the dayfile)

just an idea.

Just a thought, but the dayfile.txt might be best for plotting these graphs?

For many of my ideas I'll need closer data points- I can always average or find max/min in software. I might also want to do statistical correlations..
At present my software runs independently at timed intervals, and does its own ftp'ing. It would be neater if Cumulus uploaded ALL files in the images folder, whether put there by Cumulus or by my software.
Also, do you happen to know good websites which shows animations of weather satellite views/ meteorological predictions? I already know Met Office, BBC, Meteo, /www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif
Great software you've written- I'm having great fun.
JohnF

tenochtitlanuk wrote:Also, do you happen to know good websites which shows animations of weather satellite views/ meteorological predictions? I already know Met Office, BBC, Meteo, /www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif

All the sites I have found carry licensing restrictions so you can not use the images on your own site.

Great software you've written- I'm having great fun.

Not me, Steve -- he has done a great job with Cumulus. I've had lots of fun with it too as it is so flexible

tenochtitlanuk wrote:It would be neater if Cumulus uploaded ALL files in the images folder, whether put there by Cumulus or by my software.

I could add this as an option - but I'm looking at a re-design of the ftp settings anyway.

You do know that you can specify additional files to be uploaded at the same time as the standard files? It's currently limited to 10 files, though; I'm looking at removing this limit.