A591 Keswick, is this a weather camera?
A591 Keswick, is this a weather camera?
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MElliottUK

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844 posts

232 months

Friday 8th August
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I was leaving Keswick today and passed this camera in a temporary 30 mph zone (normally national speed limit).

It looks to me like a weather camera/instrument. Does anyone know, hopefully it's not one of those new fancy speed cameras.

Any thoughts/local knowledge?

Thanks.


RedWhiteMonkey

8,203 posts

202 months

Friday 8th August
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Pretty sure that's a weather station, it is certainly not a speed camera.

E-bmw

11,809 posts

172 months

Friday 8th August
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^^^^ Wot 'e said.

Weather station.

PorkInsider

6,329 posts

161 months

Friday 8th August
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Would a 'full disclosure translation' of the OP be something more like, "I hope to god this isn't a speed camera as i definitely wasn't doing 30..! yikes "?


(As said above, it not a speed camera biggrin )

Hill92

5,091 posts

210 months

Alicat

247 posts

250 months

Saturday 9th August
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Yes a weather monitoring station.

https://www.findlayirvine.com/weather-monitoring

MElliottUK

Original Poster:

844 posts

232 months

Saturday 9th August
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Thanks

Tymb

210 posts

115 months

Saturday 9th August
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The bit on top looks like an ultrasonic wind speed sensor.

Tymb

210 posts

115 months

Saturday 9th August
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Probably a temperature / humidity sensor on the left. Box on the right might be a tipping spoon rain sensor (counts mm of rain)

alangla

6,025 posts

201 months

Monday 11th August
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Definitely a weather station. Had a look at National Highways and Traffic England and it doesn’t appear that they publish the output which is a bit annoying. The weather stations on the trunk roads in Scotland do publish their output which is handy in the winter.