The tripod-mounted weather station consists of a combined datalogger and transmitter, to which a variety of sensors can be attached. It now stands near the entrance to the CREC building parking lot, sited more optimally for weather factors such as rainfall and wind. Volunteers from the Friends of Haverford Trails dismantled, reconditioned and revived the decade-old station in 2018, updating and reconfiguring it to focus exclusively on meteorological conditions. Sometime around 2015 the station was relocated behind and below the building.
It was originally installed at the northwest edge of "the Meadow" by Professor Don Barber and students from nearby Bryn Mawr College, who were part of the assessment team. The weather station equipment was originally bought in 2008 as part of a broad environmental and biological assessment of the former Haverford State Hospital grounds, now today's Haverford Reserve. For instance, the neighborhood rainfall amounts shown on television weather reports are derived from calculations made on radar data, not from the actual collection and measurement of rainwater. They may not even be directly measured at all. Most media-reported, online, and smartphone "app" figures for neighborhood weather are averaged or interpolated from more-distant weather stations, typically at airports. It provides public "near real-time" weather information that is actually measured in Haverford Township. The Haverford Weather Station is part of the environmental component of the Center and its activities.
The information box to the left summarizes the general conditions currently reported by this station.
The Haverford Township Department of Parks and Recreation operates a "research grade" weather monitoring station just outside its Community Recreation and Environmental Center (CREC) building, in Andy Lewis Community Park at Haverford Reserve. The Haverford Weather Station (right), next to the Recreation and Environmental Center (left)
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