Ben Nevis gets automatic weather station

Live weather knowledge is being recorded once more at the highest of mount island, the UK's highest peak, when a 113-year gap.

Researchers have put in associate degree automatic meteorologic station that digitally collects data on temperatures, wind speeds and rain levels.

Until 1904, an equivalent measurements were gathered by men United Nations agency lived in a very shelter at the summit.

The meteorological observation post was carried up the mountain, within the Scottish Highlands, by a team of researchers on weekday.

The new station suggests that guests to the UnEarthed exhibition in Edinburgh next week are able to take a glance in period at weather on the mountain, one thing that wasn't attainable antecedently.

Dr Barbara Brooks and her team from the NERC National Centre for atmospherical Science carried the instrumentation up the mountain on weekday - and were able to be precise in their observations on the weather they encountered.

"We had some blue and so as we have a tendency to crested the summit the cloud banks rolled in and that we got some light-weight snow flurries. The temperature was -3.6C with a wind chill of -12C," she told BBC News.

Escorted by native guide Ron Walker, the team of 5 got wind of a solar-and powered Vaisala WXT536 station to record wind speed and direction, pressure, temperature, humidity, and precipitation - specifically rain and sleet.

These ar the measurements that the notable "Weathermen of mount Nevis" would take by hand on the hour, every hour, throughout the amount from 1883 to 1904.

They lived in a very little shelter and telegraphed their observations to the city of Fort William down below.

Their original logs ar currently being digitised by volunteers for the Operation Weather Rescue: mount island project.