2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the complete report.
Kestrel 4000 in Record Breaking Road Trip
Yesterday R-P-R received a well-used Kestrel 4000 Pocket Weather Tracker in for a check up. The Kestrel 4000 is an essential part of kit being used in an ongoing, Guinness Book of Records breaking, road trip all around Britain. Now in its 978th day with 17000 mile completed, this epic journey around Britain, with his Kestrel4000 mounted on the handlebar, former soldier Mark Newton rides his….. mobility scooter! Mark previously…
BBC WeatherWatchers goes Live
The BBC One Show on Tuesday launched the latest BBC’s 2015 Make it Digital initiative called BBC WeatherWatchers. ‘The goal of Weather Watchers is to create a new, crowdsourced weather club that will enable people across the UK to help tell the story of the great British weather’ says Liz Howell, Head of BBC Weather. Mike Burnett, executive product manager, BBC Digital Weather, said: “Audiences already interact…
Sunshine on Football League Division Two – High Flyers
Plymouth Argyle are now flying high at the top of the English Football League Division Two, well done ‘The Pilgrims’. Flying high above the Home Park stadium for a few weeks is one of the GPRS Wind System Loan units from Richard Paul Russell Ltd. The Cornish company Clean Earth Energy is installing solar power panels on the roof of the Plymouth Life…
New ‘Mobile Friendly’ R-P-R.co.uk website
Exciting times at Richard Paul Russell this month. Look out for the new mobile friendly website going live This change is designed to make the R-P-R.co.uk pages more easily readable on smart phones and tablets by being responsive to the multitude of screen sizes now available. This update follows the roll out of our Live Weather site www.weatherfile.com where you can view weather data…
Kestrel Team trains Dog Law Enforcement Officers
In the USA.… Some Kestrel team members have been training dog wardens at the Pennsylvania Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement on the features and operation of the Kestrel Drop D2 Temperature & Humidity data logger. The PA Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement are responsible for ensuring the welfare of breeding dogs and puppies in commercial breeding kennels. Also, the bureau…
Kestrel Spotted on Wake Island after Typhoon Halola – And in UK
Wake Island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and Kestrel Weather & Environmental Meters were used by the military to re-establish the opening of the island after Typhoon Halola. Recently, the island was vacated of all residents and military due to Typhoon Halola. After the typhoon moved past the island, US military personnel conducted mission planning…
August Bank Holiday – Heat Wave
Are we in for another long wet Bank Holiday weekend, at our www.weatherfile.com site in Lymington this week we had a rainfall measurement of over 2inches in one day, can there be much water left in the clouds? Planning for an active sporting weekend in a Heat Wave ( or at least some warm weather) an essential piece of kit is the new range of Kestrel Heat Stress Trackers:…
Live Wind & Weather Data for Events and Festivals
The new Mobile Wind & Weather Station – FlexiMet MWS FlexiMet Wind Systems have been used to deliver highly accurate, reliable Wind Speed & Direction data during the past few years for visitors and event personnel at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, RHS Hampton Court and the RHS Tatton Park Flower shows. They are used in airports, construction sites, emergency services…
‘Outwardly, this is a simple little device’ – Combat and Survival Magazine July2015
Interesting review of the Kestrel Drop D3 by Mike Gormley, in the July 2015 issue of Combat and Survival Magazine . ‘Outwardly, this is a simple little device’. The Kestrel Drop range are wireless data loggers that work in conjunction with your smartphone or tablet (iPhone, iPad). The Kestrel Drop D3 records Temperature, Relative humidity, heat Index, Dew Point, Station Pressure Density Altitude, Pressure Trend, ‘A…
