Metoffice News

[Orion]

Do you have a weather station at home?

We’re planning to enhance our weather observations network by inviting everyone who has a personal weather station, manual or automatic, to send your data to a new website.

We hope this will appeal to schools, amateur meteorologists, and weather enthusiasts across the UK.

This extra data will be extremely useful in forecasting and monitoring localised extreme weather events such as heavy snow and rain. This Weather Observations Website, which is being produced by the Met Office in partnership with the Royal Meteorological Society, should be launched in early 2011.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/weath ... _form.html

[Gina]

Very interesting, thank you for the info I have sent them my request for more info.

[RayProudfoot]

So have I. Looking forward to the launch.

[robynfali]

done!

[rocketman_k]

looks interesting so I've registered, thanks for the info, K

[nking]

Thanks for the heads up, I've registered too.

[steve]

The people doing this have been in discussion with me for a few weeks now about the changes needed to Cumulus to support this.

[nking]

The people doing this have been in discussion with me for a few weeks now about the changes needed to Cumulus to support this.

I wondered if they may have been in touch, is this something that you will be able to build into Cumulus or is it going to be too much work to feed directly into their system?

[steve]

is this something that you will be able to build into Cumulus

I'm not sure how much I can say. I'm not trying to make out that it's all top secret and I'm sworn to secrecy or anything. It's being done by a consultancy company; the discussions have been very low-key and it was actually quite hard to begin with to get them to tell me anything about what it was they wanted from me. Initially, out of the blue they asked me to go to a meeting in Exeter to discuss it, without really telling me much about what "it" was!

But basically, it looks like they are going to adopt an existing protocol, so adding the code to Cumulus to update the system should be quite straightforward.

[nking]

Initially, out of the blue they asked me to go to a meeting in Exeter to discuss it, without really telling me much about what "it" was!

That would have been quite some trip for you, I assume they said you could fly and they would cover your expenses

[RayProudfoot]

That would have been quite some trip for you, I assume they said you could fly and they would cover your expenses

Given that the Met Office is an agency of the MoD and with the cuts that department is making I imagine they told Steve to hire a rowing boat!!

[Tau Bootis]

That would have been quite some trip for you, I assume they said you could fly and they would cover your expenses

Given that the Met Office is an agency of the MoD and with the cuts that department is making I imagine they told Steve to hire a rowing boat!!

Superb

[M1DUL]

So have I. Looking forward to the launch.

[scramblers]

Registered as well.

Anybody had a reply yet?

[robynfali]

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