South Shields Weather is a little project run by Neil Bradshaw G6UWI

It is based in the Marsden area of South Shields some 55 metres Above Sea Level.

This came about from an interest in weather I have had for a numbers of years. I used to fell walk and rock climb quite a lot also living on the coast in South Shields I have always followed the weather it might be the winds and direction or possibly temperature or barometric pressure.

There I was always one problem if you wanted weather in South Shields you had to rely on Newcastle weather Centre some 10 miles away.(now closed)

So I decided to do something about it, this started out as a basic indoor outdoor thermometer graduated onto an electronic barometer and eventually to a full blown weather station, then after a suggestion of a couple of friends I decided to build and run a website and this is the result.

Technical Information

Well this all about the nuts an bolts or in other words the hardware software and other bits and pieces

The main components are

Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Electronic Weather Station

This comprises of

Anemometer, Weather Vane, Rain Gauge, Outside Temperature Gauge and an Electronic Barometer. This is all linked via radio to an indoor console unit which is then liked to a PC.

The computer system is a Dell Latitude 620 Laptop this uploads the files to a remote server

The software on the computer is XP professional also running is Ambient Software Virtual Weather Station and Image Salsa for the webcam images

Another piece of software is Mcafee providing Anti Virus and Firewall