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Site Details This website has been set-up because of my longheld interest in the weather and since the closure of Kilkenny Met. Station in April 2008, there is a real need to provide local weather and climate information.My site is located within the city borough of Kilkenny about 1 km from the old Met. Station. I have recorded temperatures at the present site since Apr 2007 and since April 2008 have added rain and wind sensors (more about this under Technical Details article). As and from March 2010, it is now a climatological station with daily observations from manual instruments being submitted to Met Eireann (The Irish Meteorological Service).The site is located in the river Nore valley, about 50m above sea level, near the Linear Park and comparisons with the old Met station at Dunningstown Road have shown it to be, if anything, a slightly cooler site.See comparison table below. Google Map :
 Kilkenny itself is located in the south east of Ireland. It is 60 km from the sea and is surrounded on all sides by hills over 200m. This sheltered location ensures that it is the least windiest spot and records a reasonable range of temperature. It has often registered the daily highest and lowest temperatures in Ireland (and has been known on occasion to exceed the daily UK values too). 
Month by Month Comparison with Kilkenny Meteorological Station (May'07- Mar'08)(Temperatures for this table are based on a 0-24 hr day.) Month | Station | Mean | Mean Min | Mean Max | Monthly Min | Monthly Max | May'07 | Kilkennyweather | 12.2 | 6.9 | 17.4 | 0.8 | 23.5 | | Kilkenny Met | 12.1 | 6.9 | 17.2 | 1.4 | 22.8 | | | | | | | | Jun'07 | Kilkennyweather | 14.3 | 10.0 | 18.7 | 5.8 | 25.6 | | | Kilkenny Met | 14.4 | 10.0 | 18.8 | 6.6 | 25.2 | | | | | | | | | Jul'07 | Kilkennyweather | 14.9 | 10.6 | 19.3 | 6.8 | 21.5 | | | Kilkenny Met | 15.0 | 10.5 | 19.4 | 6.3 | 21.5 | | | | | | | | | Aug'07 | Kilkennyweather | 15.4 | 11.0 | 19.7 | 7.1 | 24.5 | | | Kilkenny Met | 15.4 | 11.1 | 19.6 | 6.9 | 23.8 | | | | | | | | | Sep'07 | Kilkennyweather | 13.3 | 8.5 | 18.1 | 1.5 | 23.5 | | | Kilkenny Met | 13.4 | 8.7 | 18.2 | 1.4 | 23.5 | | | | | | | | | Oct'07 | Kilkennyweather | 11.3 | 7.2 | 15.3 | -0.1 | 18.7 | | | Kilkenny Met | 11.4 | 7.1 | 15.6 | -0.2 | 20.1 | | | | | | | | | Nov'07 | Kilkennyweather | 8.1 | 4.6 | 11.6 | -2.9 | 16.4 | | | Kilkenny Met | 8.2 | 4.6 | 11.8 | -4.0 | 17.5 | | | | | | | | | Dec'07 | Kilkennyweather | 6.6 | 3.4 | 9.7 | -3.3 | 15.0 | | | Kilkenny Met | 6.6 | 3.4 | 9.7 | -4.3 | 15.1 | | | | | | | | | Jan'08 | Kilkennyweather | 6.2 | 2.7 | 9.7 | -2.3 | 13.8 | | | Kilkenny Met | 6.1 | 2.4 | 9.7 | -2.0 | 13.9 | | | | | | | | | Feb'08 | Kilkennyweather | 5.5 | 0.9 | 10.2 | -6.7 | 14.4 | | Kilkenny Met | 5.6 | 0.7 | 10.4 | -6.2 | 15.9 | | | | | | | | | Mar'08 | Kilkennyweather | 6.1 | 1.8 | 10.5 | -2.0 | 12.8 | | Kilkenny Met | 6.2 | 2.0 | 10.5 | -2.2 | 12.8 |
Recent Comparison with Oak Park, Carlow Meteorological Station (Temperatures here are based on a day period from 09hrs to 09hrs next day (as per Met Éireann's monthly weather bulletin.) Month | Station | Mean | Mean Min | Mean Max | Monthly Min | Monthly Max | Sep'09 | Kilkennyweather | 13.4 | 9.0 | 17.9 | 3.1 | 22.0 | | Carlow Oak Park | 13.3 | 9.3 | 17.3 | 4.2 | 21.2 | | | | | | | | | Oct'09 | Kilkennyweather | 11.6 | 8.0 | 15.3 | 1.4 | 17.0 | | | Carlow Oak Park | 11.6 | 8.3 | 14.9 | 1.4 | 16.9 | | | | | | | | | Nov'09 | Kilkennyweather | 7.6 | 4.4 | 10.8 | -1.1 | 14.1 | | | Carlow Oak Park | 7.6 | 4.5 | 10.7 | -0.5 | 14.3 |
Technical Details *The live weather data is produced by an Oregon WMR 928 weather station. This is connected in turn to a small, low power, Alix 1D (486 type) storage device, driven by special software designed by Meteohub. The data is then pushed out via broadband and does not require the use of a costly PC running 24/7. For more on this see : http://www.meteohub.de/joomla/index.php *Air temperatures are also measured using British Standard 692 type max and min thermometers. Both these and the electronic Oregon sensors are housed in a Met Eireann standard Stevenson Screen i.e. a typical standard exposure. Both temperature and rainfall figures will be very accurate and calibrated - accurate wind speed data is more difficult to replicate as it needs to be mounted on robust equipment at a height of 10m. Nevertheless gusts on my rooftop Oregon wind sensor in Apr 2008 were within 10% of the Kilkenny Met Station value. *The website has been designed using Joomla - a free open source framework for web design. More about this at : http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html . . Thanks to Fergus.*The current weather icons shown on the top of each page come courtesy of Roman Attinger.
*The historic data on Kilkenny Meteorological Station comes from Met Éireann. Thanks to Ky and Niall. For detailed climate averages for Kilkenny, see http://www.met.ie/climate/kilkenny.asp. Thanks also to Danno for lightning link.
Contact Us If you have any comments to make or would like any more information - feel free to email me at : ncdollard @eircom.net
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