Weather data can be a help to naturalists in interpreting field observations. The graphs below are an attempt to present some data in a simple and easily readable form. They show the rainfall and outside temperature, with daily maxima and minima lines, for the last two months. Future editions will continue with graphs for all of 2008, though no data prior to December 2007 are available.

The weather station concerned, a Davies Weather Wizard iii, is situated in Boxford, Suffolk at Lat 52° 01’ 40.67” N Long 0° 52’ 11.03” E or OS Ref TL 969404 at an elevation of 40 m. It should be remembered that local features may well make the weather here different from any locality you may be interested in and thus should only be taken as an indication of overall weather trends. As the year progresses these graphs will be replaced with graphs on the main weather page all of which will have the same axes and scales.

For those of you who want to delve deeper into the data recorded in Boxford much more data for the year is available to download as an Excel spreadsheet on the SNS website at www.sns.org.uk or at www.boxvalley.co.uk - simply follow the links pointing to weather data page or click here. Details of the extra data contained in the spreadsheet and the months covered are clearly shown on the page.