Southampton Weather Station Credits:
This weather stations sensors and equipment were supplied by our sponsors Oregon Scientific UK Limited,
We also utilise Davis Instruments, One Wire Ltd, Cambell Scientific, and Dallas Semiconductors.
Many sensors are experimental and custom built in-house by members of our team.
The servers that this web site and the weather station run on were supplied by Posinfo Ltd.
Thank you to Jonathan for all your help, friendship and advice.
The routers were supplied by Netgear and the networking was supplied by Solwise Ltd. with great help and support from them.
(There is a very thin line between networking and notworking)
The GUI and web interface are customised by our team of web designers primarily using Adobe Dreamweaver.
Special thanks go to Kevin Reed for his design of the common website PHP management systems.
World weather extremes script courtesy of Michael Holden of Relay Weather. Data courtesy of Ogimet.
WXReports script developed by TNETWeather and modified by Murry Conarroe of Wildwood Weather.
Thanks also must go to Mike Chalis for his windrose generator, who's online mapping, Theme Switcher and CSS styling.
Ken True for the AJAX conditions and dashboard integration. YRNO and the Norwegian Insitute for flash forecast interfacing.
The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the Devolved Administrations for air quality graphing.
Weather Underground for many things including forecasting and the worldwide network of stations.
Live webcam images are courtesy of Southwater Marine, Hamble Point Marina.
CWOP - The Citizen Weather Observer Program and
AWEKAS The Automatic Mapping System
Estofex and
Creative Commons licenses for Storm Forecast.
Pollen information and mapping by the weather channel and
also Air Stagnation and Respiratory.
A few articles in our weather infomation section were supplied courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency for the institution that is the Shipping Forecast and to the glorious BBC Radio Four
presenters for reading it so beautifully day in day out for nigh on 80 years.
The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratorys in Birkenhead for making public knowledge the daily movement
of 70% of the our planet freely available, unlike UKHO. (of whom the less said the better)
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivs 2.0 England & Wales
Licensing for Boatlaunch Marinas and Slipway Embedding.
Google Gadgets Incorporated and Google PLC for World Sunlight Map and Moon
Phase Image and various other mappy type of things.
Long Ranging Forecasting by net weather tv.
N.A.S.A Goddard Space Flight Centre and U.S Naval Observatory for sun and moon information
including access to the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.
Marine Traffic for their wonderful
Automatic Identification System (AIS), collecting, decoding,embedding and sharing facilities.
Message d’observation météorologique régulière pour l’aviation (metar) realtime information supplied by systems inspired
by the FAA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(Weather Service Operations Manual Chapter D-31 to F-73 is a must read)
Seismic Monitoring and Seismometer readings and translations made freely available by
The British Geological Survey and Enviroment Research Council.
Weather Warnings from the Met Office put into lovely widget form by https://www.willyweather.co.uk/terms.html
Oceanweather Inc. for their North Sea and North Atlantic wave height, wave period and
pressure synopsis charts, used on our UK Wave Height page.
The volunteer-run Solent Support Group for the live Sotonmet (Southampton Dockhead) and
Bramblemet (Bramble Bank) sea and wind condition reports.
BBC Sounds for hosting the live Shipping Forecast audio player.
The UK Hydrographic Office and their Admiralty EasyTide service, the official reference
for UK tidal predictions.
Ken True of saratoga-weather.org, also for the original Tide Processor tidal prediction
engine behind our classic tide tables, separately from his AJAX dashboard work credited
above.
MarineTraffic for the live ship (AIS) tracking map on our Live AIS page.
Southampton Ships (southamptonships.org) — an independent, non-commercial site
run by a local ship enthusiast — for the Arrivals and Departures schedule data on
our Port Information page, itself drawn from AIS feeds and Southampton VTS /
Associated British Ports.
The Met Office, issued on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, for the
official Inshore Waters Forecast used on our Inshore Waters page.
Associated British Ports (ABP) Southampton, the statutory harbour authority for
Southampton Water, for the Local Notices to Mariners listed on our Notices to
Mariners page.
The volunteer-run Solentmet Support Group for the live Chimet, Cambermet and Emsmet
weather station reports on our Solent Weather Buoys page, alongside the Sotonmet and
Bramblemet data already credited above.
The Met Office for the beach-specific forecasts, tide times, sea state and UV data
used on our Solent & Dorset Beach Forecast page.
Wikimedia Commons contributors for the free-licensed ship photos, and MarineTraffic
again for the per-ship live position maps, both used on our Cruise Ship Schedule
page.
Data, imagery and information used on individual pages
Forecast data on our forecast, New Forest, cruise sailing and school-run pages: Open-Meteo.com.
Aurora data and imagery: AuroraWatch UK (Lancaster University) and the NOAA/NWS Space Weather Prediction Center.
Space weather images and data: NOAA/NWS SWPC, Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, SOHO (ESA & NASA) and hamqsl.com.
Weather charts (Met Office and DWD) via Wetterzentrale.de; satellite and radar imagery from Meteociel.fr and EUMETSAT; live lightning from Blitzortung.org.
Interactive weather map: Windy.com, using ECMWF data.
VHF channels and lookout stations: the National Coastwatch Institution; Coastguard contact details: GOV.UK and HM Coastguard.
New Forest information: the New Forest National Park Authority (animal accidents), Forestry England (parking) and Camping in the New Forest (campsites).
Historic winter and storm summaries: the Met Office (Severe Winters), Central Southern England Weather Eye, Netweather, Great British Life, BBC News and Wikipedia.
Eclipse information: Royal Museums Greenwich (Royal Observatory), timeanddate.com and UK Solar Eclipses from Year 1 by Sheridan Williams (Clock Tower Press, 1996).
World earthquakes: the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); UK earthquakes: the British Geological Survey.
Marina details and plans: MDL Marinas and each marina's own website; live ship positions: VesselFinder. Photographs are our own, apart from the River Itchen banner (Geograph Britain and Ireland, Creative Commons).
Webcams: Island Sailing Club (via camsecure.co.uk and Windy.com).
School closure lists: Southampton and Portsmouth city councils.
Wind maps and charts: Windy.com (ECMWF data), PassageWeather.com (GFS model) and earth.nullschool.net.
Astronomical forecast: 7Timer! (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, from NOAA/NCEP GFS data); live sun chart: sunposition.info; Earth view: Fourmilab; Moon image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio.
Satellite imagery: EUMETSAT (Meteosat) and SAT24.com; rain radar: RainViewer; lightning: Blitzortung.org.
Charts: Wetterzentrale.de (Met Office charts © Crown Copyright, DWD charts © Deutscher Wetterdienst); North Atlantic surface and wave charts: NOAA Ocean Prediction Center.
Storm forecasts: ESTOFEX (European Storm Forecast Experiment).
Buoy data: NDBC and the Irish Marine Institute.
Air quality: DEFRA UK-Air (station SA33, Southampton Brintons Terrace).
Weather history: Weather Underground.
UV forecast: KNMI/ESA via TEMIS, used with permission.
True colour satellite imagery: NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), from the VIIRS instruments on Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 and the MODIS instruments on Terra and Aqua.
Satellite animations: EUMETSAT Meteosat Third Generation imagery, processed and published by Meteociel.fr.
Snow cover: NASA GIBS MODIS snow cover; sea ice: National Snow and Ice Data Center.
ISS position: wheretheiss.at; orbital data: CelesTrak.
Astronomy picture and near-Earth objects: NASA.
EV charging points: Open Charge Map and its contributors, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), and the charge point operators; Tesla Supercharger details: the Supercharge.info community database.
Tide gauge data: Environment Agency real-time data API.
Forecast outlook and comparison pages: OpenWeatherMap (data licensed under ODbL), Pirate Weather, Xweather, and Weather Data Provided by Visual Crossing.
Motorway closures: National Highways seven-day closure report.
Weather warnings: Met Office National Severe Weather Warnings, distributed through MeteoAlarm (meteoalarm.org); flood warnings: Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring API.
Planned road works: National Highways planned roadworks data (Open Government Licence).
Lifeboat station information: Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Atlantic and full disk satellite imagery: GOES-19 from NOAA NESDIS (Office of Satellite and Product Operations, STAR); GeoColor developed at CIRA, Colorado State University.
River and tide levels: Environment Agency real-time flood-monitoring data, © Environment Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Weather warnings: Met Office National Severe Weather Warnings.
Ensemble forecast data: ECMWF ensemble (CC BY 4.0) via Open-Meteo.com; model map overlays: Windy.com.
Central England Temperature: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET), © Crown copyright, Open Government Licence.
Nearby weather stations: the UK Weather Network (ukwx.net) and the hobbyists who run each station.
Template and script inspiration: Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org and the wider hobby weather community.
Airport reports: METAR data from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center; UK current conditions: Open-Meteo.com.
Maps: Esri World Street Map (Esri, HERE, Garmin, OpenStreetMap contributors), © OpenStreetMap contributors, and Leaflet.
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