The weather station on top of the tower continues to perform well - see
http://www.mylocalweather.org.uk/settle/
to see what it is doing right now.
One problem is that the rainwater recorder freezes as soon as the temperature falls below zero so we missed out on snowfall. The answer is to fit a heater inside the rainwater collector and this, thanks to funding from the Friends of the S&C (and to the installation of electrical power to the roof area) is just what we have done - this very morning. As the snow falls it now melts and is recorded as rainfall. A very rough conversion factor is 1:10 - in other words 1 inch of rain equals about 10 inches of snow. It depends on all sorts of things - mainly the type of snow.
For the record, it is flipping cold at the top of that pole in a blizzard!
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