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Parknacross Climate & Weather Records
Station records alongside official Johnstown Castle observations and available long-term monthly rainfall context.
A year in colour · Observed locally
The Parknacross weather fingerprint
Every circle tells a day’s story. Explore temperature, rain, wind and sunlight across the year.
↗ Temperature high↘ Rainfall↙ Peak gust↖ Solar peak
Swipe the mosaic sideways to explore every date. Tap a circle for details.
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How to read the fingerprint
Days run left to right; months run top to bottom. Each coloured segment grows with its reading: temperature high −5 to 30°C, rainfall 0 to 30 mm, peak gust 0 to 100 km/h, solar peak 0 to 1,000 W/m². Values outside these display ranges use the smallest or largest segment; the details show the actual reading. A small coloured segment includes a recorded zero; a dotted outline means not recorded.
Solar peak is the strongest recorded sunlight intensity, not sunshine duration or total solar energy. Today is incomplete; gaps in saved observations can affect any day’s totals and extremes. These fixed visual scales are not climate averages or warning thresholds. Use arrow keys to move between dates.
Local temperature records
First frost tracker
Tracks the earliest station air temperature at or below 0°C recorded at the Parknacross station in each July–June frost season.
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Only measured station lows of 0.0°C or below count as frost. Forecast temperatures are not counted as observed frost; days without a usable saved low remain unknown.
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Measured solar radiation
Solar exposure tracker
Daily sunlight energy estimated from the station’s measured solar radiation, shown for the last seven local days.
Daily exposure
Measured station radiation integrated over time
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Station-derived solar exposure, not household solar-panel generation. Readings are integrated between adjacent samples; gaps longer than 15 minutes are left out.
Climate reports
Monthly & annual reports
Automatically generated from the Parknacross daily archive.
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Past observations for this date will appear here once the archive reaches its first anniversary.
Milestones
Weather events & records
Important observations discovered from the archive.
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Monthly rainfall archive
Daily rainfall totals grouped by month
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