About

This website is a personal project of mine relating to meteorology. Here you will find my weather station, transmitting weather data from Templeorum in the south of Ireland, along with my personal blog concerning meteorological matters. My weather station will upload data to this site periodically, although the internet in rural Ireland means that the regularity of these uploads is not guaranteed. I can only do my best, but with any luck it should always be up to date within the past 24 hours. I will also occasionally publish statistical analyses and graphs of the data collected by the weather station in the Blog section. Everything here is published by me personally, and has no connection to any organisation I may be affiliated with at the time.

About Me

I am a student at the University of Southampton studying Oceanography.
For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the weather and the water.
My degree course fills one of those, but the other is left untapped, so I have started this website as a way of scratching the itch.

Meteorology

Although most people visiting this site will probably have a good idea of what meteorology is, one of the most common responses I get when mentioning an interest in the subject is “Ooh, I am fascinated by all of that space stuff,” the implication being that I am referring to the study of meteors or similar.
I am therefore going to provide a dictionary definition of meteorology here for the avoidance of confusion.

  1. The scientific study of the processes that cause particular weather conditions. (Cambridge Dictionary)
  2. A science that deals with the atmosphere and its phenomena and especially with weather and weather forecasting. (Merriam-Webster)
  3. The science of the atmosphere (Greek, meteoros lofty or elevated, and logos discourse). Meteorology embraces both WEATHER and CLIMATE and is concerned with the physical, dynamical and chemical state of the earth’s atmosphere (and those of the planets), and with the interactions between the earth’s atmosphere and the underlying surface. The term was first used by Aristotle. (Met Office Meteorological Glossary 1991)