The Davis Vantage PRO 2+, the hardware which forms the basis of the PWS De Wilgen is not a measurement device without flaws. As any measuring device – a thermometer, hygrometer etc… – it requires calibration and a calibration needs to be checked regularly. I use two types of calibration.
Yesterday I wrote a blog about the high temperatures in the Netherlands and the breaking of all existing temperature records. Today it continued and for the first time ever, temperature in the Netherlands rose above 40 °C. First time ever means since formal measurement began in 1901 and even since historical measurement series spanning almost 300 years.
It was a memorable day from a local meteorological point of view and this will continue until Saturday if the predictions are right. But because already many records were broken I make a note.
Please note, that this blog is one in a series culmination in an argument for a new Fire Weather Index for Personal Weather Stations developed by me. The articles in this blog often are not standalone but related. To appreciate this please check out the tags FWI or pwsFWI (more specific).
The Ångström index and the FMI index are highly similar indices in understanding, functioning and behaviour using only two meteorological parameters: temperature and humidity.
These indices are interesting because they are historically important, they are still in use and because, in discussing these indices, they shed some light on the understanding of the what and how of trying to understand estimating fire weather danger. Continue reading
One of the practical applications of meteorology is the objectivation of nature fire risks on the basis of different meteorological parameters (actual or from the past). Rainfall, humidity, temperature and windspeed are typically parameters to calculate a number indicating the risk on nature fire.