Hazelrigg Weather Station
Lancaster University
 
Meteorological Office Climatological Station Number 7236

Daily weather observations have been made at Lancaster University since 1966. Initially the weather station was located at a site on the University campus, but in 1976 was relocated to Hazelrigg. Hazelrigg Weather Station is run by the Environmental Science Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Lancaster University. The site lies about one kilometre North-East of the University Campus on top of a small hill, and is about ten kilometres from the Irish Sea coast.

Pictures of Hazelrigg Field Station with staff and students using the instruments can be viewed here: Pictures.

National Contrail Observation Network

* We have established a national network of aircraft condensation trail (contrail) observations. A new website detailing the mechanisms of Aircraft Contrail Observations can be found on the links below. This research started by James Screen has been continued as part of an MSC degree by Amy Foy
Click here, below and left for more information
NEW - LANCASTER UNIVERSITY CONTRAIL NETWORK

Location

* National Grid Reference : SD3493 4579
* Postcode : LA2 0PL
* Altitude : 94.1 metres above sea level
* Latitude : 54 degrees 1' 50" North
* Longitude : 2 degrees 46' 30" West
* Google Earth location


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Staff

* Full-time Meteorological Observer: Debbie Hurst D.Hurst@lancaster.ac.uk
* Hazelrigg Director/Manager: Dr. Rob MacKenzie
* Occasional Observers: Dr. Rob MacKenzie, Dr. Brian Davison.
* Voluntary/Trainee Observers: Post-graduates, under-graduates and work experience pupils

Weather observations are made every morning at 0900 GMT and the data passed on to the Meteorological Office. The Hazelrigg data provides an extremely valuable record of the weather at Lancaster over the last thirty years. In recognition of this, the weather station received an award for long service from the Meteorological Office in May 1996. The record is continuous and of very high quality, and is used for many undergraduate and postgraduate research studies.

Martin Beadle (Hazelrigg Met Manager/Observer 1974-2001) has received three awards from the Meteorological Office for the quality and reliability of the data, the latest in December 1996.

Weather Data Plots

The database is updated approximately monthly.

* Plots of Daily Data

* Plots of Monthly Data

* Plots of Annual Data

* Long Term Averages

Analyses

* Observation of a Mini Tornado near Lancaster 2004 near Lancaster.

* Observation of Lee-Wave Clouds above Lancaster/Morecambe 2004

* Strange Weather or just a standard UK winter ?

* An analysis of the radiosonde launch from Hazelrigg Met Station at Lancaster.

* An analysis of the Autumn 2000 deluge at Lancaster.

* A summary of weather 1997 at Lancaster University.

* An analysis of the 1995-1996 drought at Lancaster.

* Take a look at how hot the summer of 1995 was compared both with an average summer, and with the hottest on our records - 1976.

News

* Meteorological Office award for the high quality of data returns made in 1996.

Meteorological and Climatological Links

* You can find the list here

<D.Hurst@lancaster.ac.uk >