About This Station

Hebrides Weather has been running since March 2007 and between then and June 2009 was a sub-site of my other website Hebrides Photos.com.
The weather side of the site became too large so I thought it was time to move it to it's own domain and server, creating www.hebwx.co.uk that you see now.

The station is located in the village of Flesherin, near Tiumpan Head on the Eye Peninsula (or Point, as it's known locally), about 10 miles east of the main town, Stornoway.

The weather station in use is the Davis Vantage Pro2 which is wireless and measures the wind speed & direction, the days rain, outside air temperature, humidity and barometric pressure at sea level. It also calculates the wind chill and dew point as well as producing the weather forecast on the Live Weather. Late in 2009 some extra equipment was added to the VP2 and it now also records Solar and UV rediation. To keep stop the temperature and humidity sensors from being effected by the Sun on warm days there is also a daytime solar powered fan to keep a constant airflow over the sensors. There is a Boltek StormTracker Lightning detector connected to the computer using Nexstorm software that registers any lightning strikes within a 750 mile radius. The data for the lightning detector is also made available to various websites that produce triangulated lightning data to better identify the exact location of thunderstorms around Europe. The forecasts are created using WXSim software which is tailored to this location and collects data from various sources to produce an accurate 5-day forecast. The weather data is uploaded using a program called Weather Display which puts all of the data together, creates the graphs, tables and reports then uploads the data to the site. The program was written & designed by New Zealander, Brian Hamilton, who continues to update and add new features all the time. Added to Weather Display is Weather Display Live which is the program used for the Live Weather on this site. It is also enhanced by the MesoMap Live which takes data from weather stations all over the world and allows their readings to be displayed on a map that the site owner creates.

About This Area

The Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles, are situated about 40 miles off the west coast of Scotland in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. The Isle of Lewis, where this station is located, is the largest and most northerly of the island chain. The islands are home to a population of some 25,000 people and main industries are fish farming, crofting and tourism.

These islands have history going back thousands of years and there are collections of Standing Stones, Stone Circles, Brochs and Norsk settlements to be found throughout the islands. The most famous of which are the Standing Stones at Calanais which are estimated to date back some 5000 years.

For more information about the islands and how to visit them, please see the links on Hebrides Photos.
If you live on the islands then check out the free local Events paper and the Hebrides Weather articles in each addition.

About This Website

This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Ken True from 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.

Template is originally based on Designs by Haran.

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