Thatcham Weather Station

This website provides up to date weather information and historical records for Thatcham, Berkshire, England.

Please look at the Recent News page for um, any recent news! (Latest being 20Apr08)

The site is now able to supply a basic weather report via your mobile phone, so if you are flying kites, gliders, light aircraft or playing sport at Henwick Worthy, you can now get the weather without a PC connection.
For further details go to News Archive and look at 07May06 entry.

The weather pages are updated automatically at 5/10 minute intervals using Virtual Weather Station (VWS) software produced by Ambient Software.

The weather station is a model WMR-928NX, manufactured by Oregon Scientific and supplied by Skyview Systems. It has various sensors (seven) which are all remotely located and communicate with the base station by radio link. The base unit is connected to a dedicated weather PC (WXPC) via a serial port.

The WXPC runs the VWS software which continuously records and stores the data and generates the graphs, tables and images that are required for the website.

The WXPC is connected to the web via the local area network, the connection being 8Mb BT Broadband.

Cameras record both to local hard drive and remote webspace. The sky is capture once per minute and transferred to the website. Once an hour, a time-lapse videos are produced and uploaded. The gardens are also monitored with any movement recorded as both still images and video, but these are not publically available.

The station has continuously recorded data since 26 October 2002.