Welcome to the weather at Rickham.

This web version, and the WAP version (at http://www.rickham.net/wx.asp), should be updated every 15 minutes.

This was the weather at Rickham, last measured at 04 Jul 2009 02:15 BST

In the previous 15 minutes the wind averaged SSE at Force 3, gusting to Force 4.

More properly, in the previous 15 minutes the wind was mainly from 151 degrees true at an average wind speed of 7 Knots. It gusted to a maximum of 13 Knots, with a minimum of 2 Knots. The maximum wind speed recorded in the last 12 hours was 19 Knots (Force 5) at 14:48 BST

The air temperature was 15.2 Celsius (which is 59.4 in Fahrenheit). Allowing for the effect of wind chill, this will feel more like 12.3 Celsius (or 54.1F).

The highest temperature in the last 12 hours was 18 Celsius (64.4F) at 15:45 BST. Whilst the lowest temperature in the same period was 14.8 Celsius (58.6F) at 00:30 BST.

The atmospheric pressure at site level (the QFE) was 998 hPa. Which is a sea level pressure (QNH) of 1013 hPa.

The relative humidity was 100% which gives a calculated dewpoint of 17 Celsius, and a calculated cloudbase of 0 feet.

There has been 0 mm of rainfall measured so far today. There was 0 mm measured yesterday. The annual rainfall now comes to 0.00 cm (or about 0.0 inches) in total.

There has been 0 hours of sunshine so far today. There was 6.42 hours yesterday. The annual sunshine now comes to 640.66 hours.

If you click here, and wait for it to load, you can see a more graphic representation of the weather at Rickham. Click on the days and times in the top frame to see earlier information. You can either click on "trends" in the top frame or click here to see the 15 minute weather data (and get to the graphs).

The data is also shared with the APRServe network. It is also updated every 15 minutes by the new software. The APRServe data is transmitted by radio and uploaded to the servers as soon as it is available.

For the historic records since June 2000, click on the "Weather Archive" link above.

The weather station and the new software came from R & D Instromet in Kent.