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Weather Information
The club runs its own weather station on the Malvern hills,
the kit is installed and maintained by volunteers, so while it may be
a useful guide, the service availability and accuracy cannot be
guaranteed.
The station is situated on the top of the Malvern ridge at the
Wyche Cutting. Though it is lower than the Pinnacle Hill take off,
the Wyche has a venturi effect so wind speeds are much the same in an
easterly. In a westerly wind speed will show a bit lower than
Pinnacle and about 50% lower than the Beacon as the ground to the
west of the station does not drop away very quickly and has some
large trees in the way. The wind direction indicates correctly.
Please use this service and provide feed-back (good or bad!) to
anyone on the committee, in particular Bryan Hindle who has put a lot
of effort into making the system work. With this information the
service will continue to be improved.
Other Sites
These links are the sites that may be useful. Please let me know
of any sites you think may be of interest to others and I'll include
them.
Malvern
Wells weather station (1.5km south of the Kettle Sings landing
field)
Bromsberrow
weather station - Another set of instruments for local
conditions.
UK
Wind Map - XC Weather site providing current wind speed,
directions, temperature, etc. Mostly from airports and aerodromes.
Good forecasts for several days ahead.
Weather
Jack - Unfortunately, Weather Jack has hung up his instruments
and will no longer be publishing daily soaring forecasts.
Halo
(Theyr) Forecasts for may countries including the UK. Shows
wind, rainfall, cloud cover and temperature for a few days ahead. A
very good service, but now available by subscription only, except
for a 14-day free trial
Metcheck
- Selections can be made by region and over various time periods:
Predictions are given for every few hours. Despite the over animated
graphics it seems quite good but I don't know how accurate it will
prove to be. Includes nice links for specific events or professions,
including BBQs
which may have been handy for the club evening!
Charts
- Charts for the days ahead.
Weather
Online - Lots of good stuff if you can work it all out!
Try
here
for winds at 10m height.
This
is the latest Sat pic.
Weather
channel - Rather a lot of pop-up adverts but seems to have a
wealth of info. It can show hourly predictions for specific towns
and seems to work well (e.g. Malvern)
NOTAMS -
You do check them don't you? Not really weather related but
important none the less.
Some webcams:
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