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09 Feb 2009 |
Tomorrow (Tuesday) I have been invited down to London to give a live interview on
the “This Morning show” and later on the “Richard and Judy” Show. |
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03 February 2009
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I am on the Telly (again!)
CH4 Cutting Edge "A very British Storm Junkie"
12th Feb 2009 @ 21:00pm
"Based in Leicestershire with long-suffering fiancée Alison, Stuart Robinson's interest
in storms was sparked by the 90s Hollywood blockbuster, Twister.
He saw his first tornado in 1998 and, over the last ten years, storm chasing has
become a full-blown obsession for Stuart - he's chased 30 tornados and six hurricanes
so far.
But last year he set himself the ultimate storm chaser's goal of experiencing the
eye of a monster hurricane for himself, where the 150mph-plus winds, capable of
flattening buildings, drop to a dead calm.
It's something few people would do through choice, and which promises serious personal
danger. To achieve this holy grail he must defeat the odds, defy the authorities
and runs the risk of stormy weather on the home front as his wedding to Alison approaches."
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15 Janaury 2009 |
Added a news ticker that displays the most recent weather reports from other weather
stations around Leicestershire. You can see it working here.
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13 January 2009 |
Improved the
SunRise Times
page by adding for days forward and four days backwards from the sleted date - this
gives real value to how the day lenth is changing over a week. |
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10 January 2009 |
Good News! My planning application for the new Weather Station Anemometer has been
Granted unconditionally
. You can read the decision notice here.
I have order up a new pole in order to mount the new Anemometer so I expect it to
be up and running by the end of January. |
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10 Decmeber 2008 |
I have added a Guest Book - Please post your feedback comments (both good and bad!)
Here |
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28 November 2008 |
Work has started on a new and exciting concept for the Mountsorrel / Rothley Weather
Station - accurate weather forecasts for the next 7 Days based on the GFS model.
This is very much work in progress but I wanted to show you what I have achieved
so far. Expect plenty of changes and improvements over the next few days.
Leicestershire 7 day weather forecasts
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26 November 2008 |
Added a new page that has "Dynamic Chart" displaying recent weather data - I am using the GoogleChart API in order to display the charts. Give
it a go!
Here!
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13 November 2008 |
Added a new “fun” page – Weather Almanac Almanac – Here I describe the typical weather that
we should expect over Mountsorrel. Again it is just for fun but it is interesting
to see what to expect throughout the seasons. |
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13 November 2008 |
We have sunshine! By using my Solar Radiation Sensor I have added a SunShine Hours
parameter to All the climate pages – this was actually a lot of work as I had to
calculate if a Sun Minute was generated against every record in the database (almost
900,000 records). |
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15 October 2008 |
Added a new page
FrostWatch to monitor the amount of overnight Frosts that we get
in Mountsorrel. I am recording both Ground and air Frosts. |
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11 October 2008
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Planning approval sought for Roof Mounted Anemometer. I have taken advise from the Charnwood Council as to the installation of the roof mounted Anemometer. Apparently “Weather Vanes” do not require permission but Wind turbines do! – The Anemometer falls somewhere between the two, so to be on the safe side, I have submitted a formal planning application for it. Included in the application is a request to mount a second and more accurate Anemometer on the same pole along side the original. I run the real risk here of having permission denied and then having to take down the original Anemometer however I do not want to fall foul of any planning laws so.. I am going through the proper channels. I will update more in a month of so once a planning decision has been reached. Lets all keep our fingers cross that
the out come will allow the Mountsorrel Weather Station to contiune.
Note not to scale - max hieght above roof line is 5 to 6 feet. |
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07 October 2008 |
As requested I have removed the black background from the site and what a shock
it is!! I need to spend a few more days fiddling with the site as certain things
just don’t look right but over all it look much more fresh and new. One thing that
I have noticed now is the amount of white space that there is on the site – This
needs to be filled, so I well be moving certain dials and labels around to make
the best use of room. |
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03 October 2008
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The roof mounted Wind Anemometer is finally fixed! It stop recording wind speeds some two months ago and I have been using a temporary Anemometer mounted on my shed. This would always record low wind speeds due to its location. However today I got an Ariel fitted to swap over the Anemometer on the roof so all is now working and back to normal.
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03 October 2008
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Updated the Climate day
Page to show mean values over the last hour. Before I was just picking values
that occoured on the hour and not the mean value for that hour. This was giving
some strange values to the output. |
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01 October 2008
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A request has come in to change the black background to the site. The black was
a spin off from the old site that I used to run for mountsorrel. I must admit that
it is time for a change too! I use Casscading Style Cheets to theme the site so
I should be able to return to a white background. Updating the style of the weather
dails will be an issue but well worth it if people can actually read the text on
the site. This is work in progress until I can find a suitable mixtures of colour
but I WILL be returning to a white background :) |
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29 September 2008
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Work has finished on the StormChasing Gallary. Now I just need to upload the 100's of pictures and Video that I have shot over the years.
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