Weather station
Our automatic weather station and manual rain gauge is set up at our office near Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Data recorded from this weather station, a wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2, is freely available for use by schools, universities and communities.
The weather station measures air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rainfall and pressure. In addition, a manual rain gauge is read at 09:00 GMT each day to help calibrate the instruments.
The data can be used for a variety of educational projects, for example weather reporting, understanding meteorological measurements and data handling.
We have also developed learning resources to help explore the principles of weather monitoring, why it’s important and how this links to weather hazards and our changing climate.
Learning resources
Learning Resources: Rivers
Learning resources to help understand how engineered structures in the river channel, like culverts, screens and weirs, affect water flow and local flood risk.
Learning Resources: Catchments
Learning resources to help explore how different landscapes and land uses can affect how water flows and the risk of flooding
Learning Resources: Weather and climate
Learning resources to help understand the principles of weather monitoring, why it’s important and how this links to weather hazards and our changing climate.
Learning Resources: Coasts
Learning resources to help explore how different types and combinations of coastal defences can improve resilience to coastal flood risk and erosion.
What’s the weather doing in Skipton?
Real time weather information is available to view on our weather station dashboard.
You can also download data directly from this site, simply click on the graph title, then click ‘inspect’ then click ‘data’.
Learn more about our weather station
Have you ever wondered what an automatic weather station is and how it works?
In this short film, Heather Forbes, a JBA Flood Risk Scientist, talks about our weather station and explains what it does.
Weather station factsheet
You can download this factsheet to find out more about the technical specifications of our weather station.
