RESEARCH scientists scaled Ben Nevis last week to install a weather station that will record conditions on the summit for the first time in more than a century.
Last Tuesday (November 8), a group of scientists from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) hiked to the top of the UK’s highest mountain in the hope of being able to record weather readings after 113 years without data from the top of the mountain. The expedition is the latest stage of Operation Weather Rescue: Ben Nevis, which launched in September.
The campaign is appealing to the public to help digitise two million ‘lost’ weather measurements taken by a group of Victorian volunteers known as the ‘Weathermen of Ben Nevis’ by hand, every hour on the hour, each day of the year, from 1883 to 1904. Since September, more than 3,500 volunteers have digitised more than 1.25 million weather observations.