Today, Wind & Weather, Live from Lands End
Today, Wind and Weather, Live from Lands End. Well to be more precise, NCI Gwennap Head, located high (Station Elevation: 230′) on the far south west of Cornwall between Land`s End and Porthcurno, today, went live on RPR Ltd’s www.Weatherfile.com site. The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) is an entirely voluntary organisation keeping a visual watch along UK shores. Currently 50 NCI stations are operational and manned by…
Beaufort Hurricane Force 12 from Storm Barbara ?
The Meteorological Office issued an amber weather warning for northernmost Scotland as Storm Barbara approaches the UK. The Met Office said the worst of the weather was expected Friday and Christmas Eve Saturday. Gusts of up to 90mph (the maximum, Force 12 on the Beaufort Scale) are forecasted for parts of Scotland with Christmas travellers being warned to expect disruption…
WEATHERFILE.COM Hits 2 Million Page Views & Mobile Friendly
WeatherFile.com has made incredible advances in the last 15 months. It started life as a very flat HTML 1.0 driven website providing an incredible wealth of information. Brilliant for weather geeks with time on their hands, but not so easy to view ‘on the go’. The team sat together and realised it was important to bring the site up-to-date. Some…
Wind &the Worlds Shortest Scheduled Flight
The airport at Aikerness on Westray, one of the Orkney Island now benefits from the new additional of a GSM connected FlexiMet Wind System providing live (and historic) Wind speed and Direction on any internet connected Phone, Tablet, Laptop or PC via WWW.WEATHERFILE.COM One of this beautiful and interesting islands claims to fame is that Flights, leaving the island’s airport at Aikerness to travel to…
North Ronaldsay now has Live Wind Data
North Ronaldsay is one of the smallest, most isolated and northerly of Orkney’s populated isles. The island is home to fascinating wildlife, natural beauty and the island’s unique seaweed eating sheep. North Ronaldsay sheep are an ancient breed which are kept on the foreshore by a 13-mile drystone wall known as a dyke and they live mainly on seaweed. They are allowed on…
‘I’ll be Back’ and it is – Wind Chill !
The UK winter up to now has been wet and windy, it is now very Wet! Noticeably though, temperature readings have been holding up above seasonal averages, but ….. This weeks weather outlook is a chilly change downwards to the more normal ‘cold’ winter temperatures. With the high winds still being forecasted, the chilling effects of the wind needs careful monitoring for the safety of all outdoor workers and those pursuing…
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.
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…
