The Met Office operate a weather station (WMO id 03808) near Camborne, Cornwall, located 87m above mean sea level in Cornwall, south-west UK. Since 1978 meteorological observations have been recorded on a 24 hr basis, linking the station to the synoptic network of the Met Office Meteorological Service. The site is located at OS grid reference SW 627406 . More information can be found in the linked documents. Upper air observations from the site have also been made via ceilometer, radiosonde and boundary-layer wind profiler.