Welsh Weather Data on Line

The Skye Instruments’ (UK) MiniMet weather station forms part of
the Swansea City and County Council’s programme of automatic and continuous air quality monitoring, first established in 1994.
Data from 5 air quality stations around Swansea, Wales, can be viewed as an online resource of near real-time air quality data and meteorological data. The Skye weather station records global and
UV radiation along with the usual wind, air pressure, rainfall and
temperature parameters. It is installed on the roof of the Guildhall
Pollution Control Division offices, with an open and uninterrupted
fetch out over Swansea Bay. Swansea’s website was redesigned during October 2005 in line with the DETR Air Pollution Index banding system to convey the information in a more simplistic way.
Swansea has experienced heavy flooding this Autumn. The Council’s
Drainage Section has found the one minute interval rainfall data very
useful in helping to analyse the heavy downpour periods and monitoring the capacity of the City’s sewer system.