Meta West-bound from Eastbourne All good things come to an end ... in this world. Decommissioning weather station and air quality monitorDue to operator relocation this Eastbourne-based weather station and air quality monitor have had to be decommissioned and moved. As already noted on the original brxnet.org website,
weather Storm Ciara incoming With clear blue skies, and a sense of calm it was hard to believe that storm Ciara would be well and truly here by Sunday morning.
weather Off the charts The e.brx.io weather station recorded a maximum of 1051.1hPa shortly before midnight on 19 Jan. Pressure stayed above 1050hPa until just after midday on 20 Jan. It looks like the high is beginning to pass by.
Meta Of the charts The new charts system involves InfluxDB and Grafana, logging data from multiple sources into one database so they can be queried together and represented on the same graph
airquality Walking in a particulate matter wonderland Air quality levels remain good in Eastbourne as Christmas approaches. This is boring but brilliant news for local residents. According to my sensor we had a brief spike in PM2.5 at the start of December
weather Sensor sensibility The temperature got down to a frosty -2°C, which is quite low for Eastbourne, especially this early in December. And as the temperature dropped so the reported particulate matter
Meta Upgrading pywws on a pi Today I am upgrading the weather station data logging computer's software. It's going sloooooowly. But once done it should allow better data analysis. Here's what's going on...
airquality Levelling up PM2.5 levels in Eastbourne have spiked twice today to over 50µg/m³, PM10 levels followed a similar pattern.
airquality Raindrops keep falling on my particulate matter levels Eastbourne has again enjoyed some nice, low particulate matter levels this week. Floating 24h average readings for PM2.5 have not risen above 8μg/m³ in the last seven days.
weather Bank holiday bump It's been a brilliant bank holiday weather-wise with highs of 28°C and calm seas making for perfect sunbathing conditions on the beach, and thousands of people having been making
weather Eastbourne in bloom and a sub-Saharan plume On the evening of Tuesday 18 June we had a spectacular thunderstorm at the end of an unusually wet and unsettled period. The media widely reported more than 1,000 lightning strikes in the Eastbourne area.
weather Max-Q In rocketry there is a point during the powered ascent referred to as Max-Q, the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle, it is normally the point at which
weather Haze lowers temperature, hides air hazard Eastbourne today experienced what was most likely a mild sea fret. It was not a thick fog, we could still see the pier from the harbour, but it was sufficient to keep temperatures below what the rest of Sussex was enjoying.
airquality Sunny Eastbourne Easter Saturday As if the filth of the world's air had been taken away somehow, particulate matter levels have dropped right back to DAQI "Low" levels this Easter weekend.
airquality Windswept but not completely clean Storm Gareth has been making its presence felt this week with very high winds and some rain in Eastbourne. PM2.5 shows ups and downs but the maximums only reach the middle of the DAQI "Low" band, which is good news.
airquality Steady as she goes - shipping pollution to Eastbourne? Startling, steady increase of both PM2.5 and PM10 air pollutants in Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne this morning. Shipping as a possible source.
airquality Once every blood-red supermoon Eastbourne has enjoyed some pleasantly PM2.5-free air over the last week. Levels have been low, only rising above 15ug/m³ once before Saturday. Since Saturday levels have climbed again.
airquality Gone with the wind? What exactly led to the wonderful clearance of air pollution last night? The Defra forecast for today says, "Air pollution levels will be Low for the whole of the UK today due to brisk westerly winds". That makes all kinds of sense.
weather Slow wind news day Since the installation of the new weather station back in September 2018 it has seemed to me that the reported wind speeds have been low. I wonder if the anemometer supplied with this weather station kit is perhaps running slow.
airquality All is calm, PM2.5's a fright It's been calm since Christmas Day, and PM levels have been steadily climbing towards unhealthy levels. Certainly the PM2.5 values anyway. PM10 has also been rising but not to
airquality The PM2.5 month in review - November 2018 November 2018 was an interesting month. We had the early peak in pollution with Guy Fawkes' night the likely culprit. You can see that on the graph.
weather Weather station restoration The new weather station was installed this afternoon and data collection has now been restored!
weather Chicken dinner We have a winner in the low cost solution to the broken weather station problem. The weather station has until now used parts from Maplin, in fact the original station was first bought from Maplin - their N96GY product. It was well supported by
weather Another anemometer animated no more Never before in the field of climatology and sports relations have so many delicate instruments been damaged by so few with such impunity.
weather Juxtaposing air quality and weather data A first, rough, stab at comparing weekly weather data with air quality measurements. Atmospheric pollution levels will clearly be very affected by the weather and so I would expect this kind of comparison to produce some real insights over time.
