Penkridge weather station
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Penkridge weather station is a weather station
at Penkridge
in Staffordshire
, England
, operated by the Met Office
. It is situated on the site of Rodbaston College.
The station is 101 m above mean sea level
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Weather station
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for observing atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind...
at Penkridge
Penkridge
Penkridge is a market town and ancient parish in Staffordshire, England with a population of 7,836 . Many locals refer to it as a village, although it has a long history as an ecclesiastical and commercial centre. Its main distinction in the Middle Ages was as the site of an important collegiate...
in Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, operated by the Met Office
Met Office
The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a trading fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
. It is situated on the site of Rodbaston College.
The station is 101 m above mean sea level
Sea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average max. temperature °C Celsius Celsius is a scale and unit of measurement for temperature. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death... (°F Fahrenheit Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit . Within this scale, the freezing of water into ice is defined at 32 degrees, while the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 degrees... ) |
6.5 | 6.9 | 9.5 | 12.0 | 15.7 | 18.4 | 21.1 | 20.8 | 17.5 | 13.5 | 9.5 | 7.4 | 13.3 |
| Average min. temperature °C (°F) |
1.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 6.2 | 8.9 | 11.1 | 10.9 | 9.0 | 6.4 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 5.5 |
| Rainfall mm (inches) |
62.7 | 44.4 | 51.2 | 48.5 | 52.7 | 59.3 | 46.7 | 57.7 | 63.6 | 60.5 | 62.0 | 66.8 | 676 |
| Source: Met Office | |||||||||||||