Dymchurch Weather Information Page

Station Information

The original weather monitoring & logging system has been running since 1996 and is located at Dymchurch on Romney Marsh in Kent.

The main weather system consists of various sensors monitoring individual weather parameters and was manufactured by Instromet Weather Systems

These include a roof mounted anemometer unit monitoring wind speed and direction.


A sunshine monitor using light intensity diodes as a gauge of sunshine level.
This unit uses light detection cells to compare the intensity of sunlight compared with a shadow
when the ratio exceeds a preset threshold, the sun is deemed to be shining.

A rain gauge is included which has a measurement resolution of 0.01mm.
It does this by collecting rainfall over a set area and passing this through a calibated hole which produces water droplets
which are counted, each droplet is 0.01mm of rain. So it is quite accurate.

An electronic temperature probe provides the temperature measurement.

A high quality electronic humidity probe is used to measure local air humidity.

Barometric pressure is monitored by an accurate electronic pressure transducer..

All these units pass their data to a battery backed logging system which stores the information for downloading.
onto a computer and subsequent transfer, automatically, to the internet web site.

The main weather data logger is now connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero which handles all the Software and web page uploading.
This saves a large amount of electrical power and allow a fully battery backed up system in the event of a power cut.

The web site has been up and running since January 2005.

The web site was introduced for two reasons :-

a) As a challenge to adapt the weather station for web use.
b) As a possible site of assistance to browsers.

It is hoped that the web site is useful to all those interested in the weather conditions on Romney Marsh.



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If you have any comments on this weather site and/or suggestions on how it could be improved please send an e-mail to

romneyweather@aol.com

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