The Weather station is located at our offices iin South Horrington. South Horington lies  just outside of the Cathedral city of Wells in the Chilcote Valley,  on the southen dip slope of the Mendip Hills. South Horrington is a relatively new village created in the late 1990s from the forma Mendip Hospital that was closed in 1991.

The original hospital designed by George Gilbert Scott, who is better known for his designs of St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial in London opened on 1 March 1848.

The frontage of the main Gilbert Scott building is indeed impressive, and fortunately listed.

 North Lodge located to the west of the main forma hospital building next to the main Bath to Wells Road. North Lodge was once one of many hospital lodges on the site but has now been converted into a suit of offices. The Red Onions Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station is mounted onto the southern aspect of North Lodge  however due to the roof line the wind vane is under exposed to the north.

 Meteorological data is collected via a Davis Vantage Pro2 Wireless Weather station automatically logging, temperatures, humidity, wind speed, wind direct, rainfall, incidented solar radition, and pressure. The Weather station commenced recording in November 2010, although we do have local AWS (automatic weather station) records from Sep 1999. The readings are logged automatically every five minutes via the Davis Weather Link data Logger and uploaded to the Mendip weather website.

To get a better visualization of the geography around South Horington and Wells we have created a Digital Terrain model of the southern slop of the Mendip Hills

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