LAND RESOURCE SCIENCE

Weather Records for

Elora Research Station & Guelph Turfgrass Institute

The University of Guelph, Dept. of Land Resource Science Agrometeorology group maintain two automatic weather stations that collect hourly climatic data.

The Elora Research Station is located a few Km south of Elora Ontario at 43 deg 39'N 80 deg 25'W and at an elevation of 376m above M.S.L. The station started collecting data in 1971 but data on this internet site starts in January 1989. The data before 1989 is located at the University of Guelph McLaughlin Library in hardcopy.

Weather data has been collected in the University area since 1881 at various locations (Old Physics building; Puslinch Field, known as Guelph OAC on Stone Road across from the fire hall, Arboretum, and currently at GTI).

The Guelph Turfgrass Institute is located on Victoria Rd near College Ave. in Guelph Ontario at 43 deg 33'N 80 deg 13'W. The elevation is 325m above M.S.L.
Weather data for GTI started in September 1989 and all of the data is posted.

The data are listed in monthly files that can be downloaded and imported into a spreadsheet for analysis.

Click on Format for the way the data is setup

Click on data for a listing of files that can be downloaded.
To view recent data (usually updated during normal working hours), click on Recent Data.

To go to our Department web page click on   Land Resource Science

GTI Format      GTI Monthly Data Files     GTI Recent Data      GTI & ERS Current Month

ERS Format    ERS Monthly Data           ERS Recent Data     Supplement Data

Picture of ERS Site

OTHER METEOROLOGY SITES

E-Mail any questions or errors found in data sets to dlouttit@.uoguelph.ca

Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 52208 (Phone Mail )

For data from other OMAFRA / University of Guelph weather stations (Ridgetown, Woodstock, Vineland)
contact: Ian Nichols at Ridgetown
E-Mail: inichols@ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca Phone: 519-674-1532

Climate data for GTI and ERS can also be found at the University of Guelph McLaughlin Library under the following titles

Title             Canadian Climate Normals
Author          Canada Dept. of the Environment 
                    Atmospheric Environment Service
Call Number: CA1 EP200 82C11                   
Location:      Guelph McLaughlin Government Documents Book Stacks

Title        Climatological Station Report
                            - Elora Research Station.
Author         University of Guelph.
                   Dept. of Land Resource Science
Contents     Includes: Daily Temperature, Precipitation, Wind Speed,
                                     Radiation, and a Daily (24 hours) Wind Summary.
Other Title   Monthly Meteorological Summary
                                     - Elora Research Station.
Accession No. 00810600
GovDoc Summary Holdings
Location------- Form----------- Call Number----------------------------
Copy
Doc. Center   PERiodical    CA2ON UF72 A37   1987 Feb.-1995 April 1

Title       Guelph GTI Weather Station Weekly.
Author         University of Guelph.
                    Dept. of Land Resource Science
Notes          Lacks Jan 1994
Other Title Guelph GTI Weather Station Weekly Data.;
                    Guelph Turfgrass Institute Weather Station Weekly Data.;
                    Guelph Turfgrass Institute Weather Station Report.
Other Author    University of Guelph. Guelph Turfgrass Institute
Accession No. 01006698
GovDoc Summary Holdings
Location------- Form----------- Call Number----------------------------
Copy
Doc. Center   PERiodical     CA2ON UF72 C48   1993 Sept.-Dec.;
                                                 1994 Feb. - Lacks Jan 1994

Title       Climatological Station Report
                                    - Guelph Arboretum.
Author         University of Guelph.
                    Dept. of Land Resource Science
Notes          Lacks 1991 Jan.
Contents            On September 1, 1993 the "manual" weather station at
                   the Arboretum was replaced by an automated station; therefore
                   the monthly summaries have been discontinued by
                   Land Resource Science.
Includes:    Daily Temperature, Precipitation, and Sunshine Records.;
Other Title Sunshine Record - Guelph Arboretum.;
                    Recording Precipitation Gauge - Monthly Report
                                                  - Guelph Arboretum;
                    Monthly Meteorological Summary
                                               - University of Guelph Arboretum.
Accession No.       00810604
GovDoc Summary Holdings
Location------- Form----------- Call Number----------------------------
Copy
Doc. Center     PERiodical     CA2ON UF72 C47   1987 Feb.-1993 Aug.//
                                Lacks 1991 Jan

GUELPH O.A.C.
Doc. Center PERiodical CA2ON UF72-78 G75

          For earlier O.A.C. Meteorological Records see 
                    RE1 OAC A0765 (O.A.C. Meteorological Records, 1881-1968)

Updated Feb 24/05