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<p>The climate and weather of the Otter Valley in Devon, England. The Otter Valley Weather Station is situated alongside the River Otter between the villages of Newton Poppleford & Otterton
in the low-lying hinterland of south-east Devon, 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) west of the coastal regency town of Sidmouth.</p>
<p>The Otter Valley Weather Station was setup in Spring 2005 and consists of a
set of Met Office approved sheathed minimum and maximum thermometers, plus a wet
& dry bulb hygrometer (using a humidity calculator) housed in a Stevenson
Screen. A standard Casella 5 inch rain gauge is also used. As an addition,
electronic measurements are also taken using a Davis Vantage Pro2+ automatic weather station which feeds
directly back to a PC enabling the production of continuous 5 minute data sets.
Parameters which are measured electronically are wind speed (anemometer at 10
metres) and direction, grass minimum, soil temperature at 30 and 100 cm depth,
rain intensity (via a tipping bucket rain gauge), UV Index, solar radiation and
sunshine duration (Instromet R&D type Sun Sensor). There is a Boltek Stormtracker lightning detector giving live view of lightning strikes. There is also a webcam
and gives a view of the southern sky looking towards the sea. The site is situated on a relatively wide
valley floor of the River Otter, just north of the village of Otterton and is
sheltered to the east and west, and slightly exposed to the north, and rather
exposed to the south.</p>
<p>Nearby villages and towns are Ottery St Mary, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, Seaton, Fluxton, Tipton St John, Colaton Raleigh, Otterton, Newton Poppleford.</p>
<p>The Otter Valley starts up in the Blackdown Hills and runs roughly SSW to the
sea at Budleigh Salterton. This weather station is situated alongside the River
Otter near the village of Otterton in the south-east of Devon, which is in the
south west of England. The nearest coastline is 3.5 km away at Jacob's Ladder
Beach, Sidmouth. The area is dominated by rolling, lush green hills and soft,
broad-leaved wooded valleys and the dramatic, inspiring coastline of the
Jurassic Coast, which is a natural World Heritage Site. The climate is maritime
temperate hence, mild, humid and dominated by the Atlantic Ocean to the west.</p>
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