Dyce Weather Station Next To Runway

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Thanks to Ray Sanders for this latest piece of sleuthing!

One of the Net Office’s temperature recording stations is at Aberdeen Dyce Airport. It has been operational since 1959.

Ray has managed to locate the weather station, which is about 50m from the aircraft pictured on the runway, and only a few yards from a road and car park.

It has a WMO classification of Class 4, meaning there is uncertainty of up to 2C.

Dyce is a busy hub, handling 75000 flights last year and 2.3 million passengers.

As with other airports, the 1959 version would have been smaller with much less infrastructure.