Fire Weather

civdef

Is there any source of relative humidity data from individual weather stations that would go back over a week or more?

Would be very handy for tracking fire behaviour over the past few days.

M.T. Cranium

This link, if it works, should get you to the data you need.

It would show Wed 4 May for Ireland West airport (Knock) which comes up for Claremorris ... I'm not 100% sure why or the exact location of the data but apparently it is either Claremorris, Knock or somewhere in that vicinity.

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EIKN/2011/5/4/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

then if you wanted to see earlier days you would have to use the date option near the top of the display and go back day by day. Hourly r.h. values are provided.

If you wanted other locations you would need to navigate further back to weather underground's home page and select other locations.

Harps

For my local station you can see the data here

http://193.1.80.111/Weather/May2011.htm

Humidity averaged around 50% all week and the strong winds obviously made things a lot worse

civdef

Thanks for that. I was using a portable weather station at some of the fires this week, RH made a huge difference to how the fires behaved.

thebiglewbowski

just seen this nasa sat image of the fires dated 02/05/2011

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2011122-0502/Ireland.A2011122.1150.1km.jpg

smallwonder

That Nasa pic is so cool...I was fighting fires in both the Dungloe area and Falcarragh...they felt as hot as that red dot!

BEASTERLY

Some ariel views showing the sheer scale of the fires:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqpZE43tbc