Weather Data Help Needed!

[suffolkboy_]

Just a quick one everybody. Hiope sombody can help!

For work purposes (I work in construction), I need rainfall data for the MetOffice Shoeburyness weather station, for the months of April, May and June. The MetOffice want to charge me £100 for each month. Surely this information is available for free somewhere?

Thanks is advance!

[TonyH]

Cannot find any rainfall data for the MO site, no data on weatheronline and tutiempo.

There are the personal stations nearby on Wunderground however often these are unreliable:

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=51.541&lon=0.712&zoom=13

[suffolkboy_]

Cannot find any rainfall data for the MO site, no data on weatheronline and tutiempo.

There are the personal stations nearby on Wunderground however often these are unreliable:

http://www.wundergro...n=0.712&zoom=13

Thanks for you help Tony.

Your findings seem pretty similar to mine! Unfortunately I will have to have official MetOffice data.

[Thundery wintry showers]

I think I've found Shoeburyness at Tutiempo.net:

http://www.tutiempo....YNESS/36930.htm

[TonyH]

No rain TWS

EDIT Yes there is !

[Thundery wintry showers]

June 2012 data:

http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/SHOEBURYNESS/06-2012/36930.htm

Seems to have rainfall figures.

[Interitus]

Some of the data on tutiempo doesn't seem right - compare to ogimet

http://www.ogimet.co...&min=0&ndays=30

edit: Ok tutiempo use the 24 hour total to 6am as that day's rain, (and then somehow round the data so 0.8 becomes 0.76, 14.8 becomes 14.73 etc),

[leehws]

Here is the data from NOAA online for Shoeburyness, correct to 0.01 inches, under PRCP. This data is sourced from the MetOffice. Hope this helps.

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/CDO6492935863751.txt

[Interitus]

Of course, now we see where the tutiempo discrepancy lies, the original readings are made in millimetres, converted to inches by NOAA and then back to millimetres, with rounding errors at each step.