august 18, 2010 05:10pm

FifeWeather features in the Daily Record

The Daily Record published a feature article today on Amateur Meteorologists and I was rather excited to have been included in the article. You can find the article in today's Daily Record, or on their website.

august 07, 2010 09:16am

Marykirk Weather Closes Down

As a result of the closure of the Marykirk Weather Station, the Mesomap, which was kindly provided by Marykirk Weather, is no longer functional and has been removed from FifeWeather.co.uk.

A suitable replacement can be found in the form of the Scottish Weather Network's mesomap.

My sincere thanks to John Hewitt for allowing me to use his Mesomap on FifeWeather.co.uk for the past 4 years! Marykirk Weather will sorely be missed!

july 14, 2010 09:02am

Brief site outage around 08:50

Due to a need to replace the standby battery in the UPS unit that protects the main FifeWeather web server, I had to take the system down this morning for approximately 5 minutes. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

july 10, 2010 05:23pm

New Site Under Construction

FifeWeather.co.uk is now four and a half years old, and in that time it has grown a lot. The original template suited the site well, but now the site design has become cluttered and navigating the site is no longer as easy as it should be.

In the background, I'm working hard on a brand new site design. I'm about 40% of the way there, but still have some major technical challenges to overcome with the new design. I don't just want the new site to be a re-hash of the information on the old site, but rather a real step forward in the evolution of the site and what it brings to the community.

At the moment, I'm hoping to have the new site completed in the next 2 months, but I don't want to commit to a launch date at this stage. I will however continue to update this news section as I make progress.

The new site will be launched in one go, so don't expect to see any incremental changes. On the launch date (which will be announced here), the new site will be switched on and the old site will be retired.

If there is anything you would like to see on the new site, please don't hesitate to let me know via the contact page. I can't promise I can implement all requests, but I will certainly keep it in mind for the new site.

Best regards,
Graham Smith
FifeWeather.co.uk

june 30, 2010 02:08pm

T in the Park

With the 2010 T in the Park Music Festival looming, the location pointer to the festival grounds has once again been added to the WeatherCam.

This year's festival is being held from the 9th to the 11th of July.

may 28, 2010 04:43pm

Storm Forecast Added

Thanks to the UKASF, I've added a UK storm forecast widget to the Forecasts Page. You can read more about these storm forecasts on the UKASF website.

april 22, 2010 09:36am

Vortex Anemometer Back Online

Seeing as the conditions were ideal yesterday, and I had received the required parts from the USA, repairs to the Vortex anemometer were carried out between 15:30 and 19:30 yesterday (21/04/10). During this time period, wind direction and speed should be considered erroneous.

The Vortex anemometer successfully went back online at approximately 09:30 today after completion of the recabling works following on from the repairs yesterday. So once again, the weather station is back to 1 second update intervals on wind speed.

april 10, 2010 12:47pm

Anemometer Degraded

The Inspeed Vortex anemometer is showing signs of exposure to the Scottish weather and is in need of replacement parts. Whilst it is still functional at windspeeds greater than 8-10mph, below this speed, the friction being caused by worn bushings is preventing the anemometer from turning.

Replacement parts on en-route from America. In the interim, as of 20:00 tonight, the FifeWeather website will revert back to taking readings from the original Oregon Scientific anemometer for wind readings, until the Vortex can be repaired. I'm hoping to complete repairs during the week commencing 26th April.

Note that wind direction readings are not affected by this issue.

march 08, 2010 11:13am

Scottish Weather Network

FifeWeather.co.uk is now part of the Scottish Weather Network. You can view a comprehensive "mesomap" of Scotland, with readings from all member stations here.

Many thanks to Martin Collins for the warm welcome to the SCWN!

march 06, 2010 03:38pm

MetOffice Forecast Added

The Metoffice have made a small forecast widget available to webmasters. I have now incorporated the new Metoffice 5 days forecast widget into the Fife Forecast page.

The detailed yr.no forecast and Metcheck forecast are still present on the page as normal.