These data were measured using 'industry standard' tipping bucket rain gauges however they should not be considered as necessarily conforming to Met Office standards. Whilst suitable sites were sought, on occasion they were less than ideal locations, for example at exposed areas, on sites elevated above ground level or too close to walls and trees.

These datasets are not complete as most sites were not in continuous operation. Rain gauges were moved between locations and were at times offline This can be for a number of reasons, for example flat batteries, faulty loggers or intermittent GPRS connectivity. Timestamps are recorded after every 0.2mm of rain and zero or null records not included.

Without comparing with known reference data, for example Met Office Historic data for Bradford it is difficult to distinguish whether a rain gauge was in operation on any particular date.

Locations are given by postcode area.

Data made available in collaboration with the Interreg North Sea project SCORE.

Publisher

Bradford Council

Frequency

One off

Licence

UK Open Government Licence (OGLv3)

Resources

• Rainfall data 2005 to 2016