About This Station
The weather station is powered by a wireless BRESSER WIFI ClearView Weather Center with 7-in-1 Sensor. The weather system includes the following:
- RC Weather Station with 7-in-1 Multisensor and WIFI function
- Wind speed and direction, humidity, temperature
- Precipitation with historical data, UV and light intensity
Additionally, UV data, plus information on nearby lightning strikes is provided by a wireless Tempest Weather System from Weatherflow.
The weather stations are located at Latitude: 53.3652° Longitude: -6.0716°. The data is collected every second and this site is updated every 90 seconds. The data on this site is collected using Weather-Display Software.
About Earlscliffe
The Robinson Garden at Earlscliffe is on the Howth peninsula just north of Dublin city at a latitude of 53.3°N. This means that it is further north than Newfoundland and on the same latitude as Manchester in England, Hamburg in Germany, the southern part of the Hudson Bay and Edmonton in Canada and Minsk in Russia. Yet despite being much nearer to the north pole than to the equator, bananas, tree ferns, South African Erica and a range of palms flourish outside without any winter protection.
This is not simply the result of skilled plantsmanship but owes a lot to the unusually favourable microclimate. The garden slopes to the south and benefits by being close to the sea and also from the 180 metre high Hill of Howth on its northern side. With the advantage of the warm current from the Gulf of Mexico almost encircling Howth, it seems that the peninsula can grow a wider range of plants than any other place of similar latitude.
Advantage is taken of the auspicious situation to test the climatic hardiness of plants from all five continents. No plants are protected artificially even in the coldest weather so that realistic information on hardiness can be obtained.
About This Website
- This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
- Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
- Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
- Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
- Special thanks for a number of scripts from Leuven-Templates
- Cloud base graphic courtesy of Bashewa Weather.
- Template is originally based on Designs by Haran.