About the
station:
Located at around 56 degrees North and
9 degrees East, Herning has a quite northerly location, but still
enjoys rather mild winters
gently helped by the North Atlantic
Current/Gulf Stream. It is in the western part of Denmark, in the
middle of the peninsula Jylland. The Danish
capital,
Copenhagen, is about 300 km to the East, on the eastern part of the
island Sjælland. Herning has one of the most continental
climates
in Denmark with the highest summer maximums and lowest winter
minimums, although it is mostly an oceanic climate all in
all,
with just 60 km to the North Sea with Great Britain at
the other side. At an altitude of about 45-60 metres (app. 140-185
feet) above sea level,
altitude is not a climate factor here, as
it is nowhere in Denmark, with our highest "mountains" reaching only
about 160 metres (app. 500 feet).
The station is privately owned
and operated with good, but still non-professional equipment, and
you should always consult the nearby
official station at Karup
Airport at http://www.dmi.dk for very important
data needs.
The station's instruments consist of:
Outdoors: a combined temperature/humidity sensor plus a
rain-meter placed about 3 metres (10 feet) above
ground
and a wind-meter placed on the top of the roof at a
height of about 8 metres (25 feet)above ground,
which is a bit too low for
the most officially correct wind reading, but as good as it gets at
the location.
From Feb. 2011 this station also has
a solar sensor placed on the rooftop.
Indoors: a recieving station
including a digital barometer with adjustment to sea-level readings.
The reciever is connected to an always running computer,
also
operating a webcam and various weather and
webcam software uploading data continously to this site, as well as
http://www.wunderground.com/ and
the
website of the Danish Meteorological Institute, http://www.dmi.dk/ . While the owner
of this site and the station strives to always keep
things
running, no guarantees can be made for an always running
system. Updates are needed, and power outages, for instance during
thunderstorms,
may cut off the equipment for shorter or longer
whiles. Below are a few images of the equipment:
Hardware, a Davis
Vantage Pro 2 weather station connected to a PC:

Always running (hopefully..) PC to gather the
weather data and put them online, a webcam is also
connected:

This is what the
webcam sees:

Location on
map:
Google Earth images of
Herning:



Timezone and current
time in Herning:
Visit the official tourist information site for
Herning, Denmark
CONTACT THE WEATHER
STATION!