Weather Station Pt 2

This is the weather station screen that goes with the sensor I blipped yesterday (it was a challenge to photograph!). As you might be able to see, we've had half an inch of rain so far today, and it's been windy (more so than this shows as at the moment the sensor is on a pole attached to a  fence post about 8ft off the ground, so not higher than nearby buildings). I had a lovely very long chat with my friend H this morning, then had my Sainsbury's delivery and did some of my jigsaw this afternoon whilst listening to the excellent podcast 'The Battersea Poltergeist'. 

Day 359 / Day 64 of Lockdown 3 / Day 3 of Step 1 of Roadmap out of Lockdown (for my record only)
UK deaths up 190 to 124,987 (revised basis), with 5,926 new cases (decrease definitely slowing right down), 9,435 patients in hospital, 1,293 on ventilation and 634 new admissions. Deaths in Italy have now passed 100,000. 22.8m have now received their first dose of the vaccine and 1.3m have had their second dose. The Vaccine Minister is expecting a 'big uplift' in supply in the 2nd half of March. I heard on R4 this evening that you're more likely to have mild side effects with the AZ vaccine on the 1st dose, and on the 2nd dose with the Pfizer vaccine, with women and younger people having more mild side effects. The UK is annoyed that the EU says it has an export ban on vaccines which the PM says we don't. Reports from France still suggest a worryingly high number of people (50%) may refuse a vaccine. A report by the Public Accounts Committee says that T&T could not produce 'clear evidence' it had reduced the spread of the virus - I've said before that they seem too focused on the number of tests undertaken rather than the effectiveness of T&T in reducing spread and that my belief is that local services would be more effective (and cheaper) given their local knowledge. The T&T budget of £37bn over 2 years is shockingly large. Surge testing is being carried out in areas of Wandsworth after the South African variant was identified there. Another report on R4 said the Kent variant is now thought to be twice as deadly as the original strain. An inflammatory protein GM-CSF has been found by UK scientists to be almost 10 times higher in patients that died of Covid, hopefully targetted drugs can now be developed. The NHS is reporting that 'real world' analysis shows that lateral flow tests are 99.9% reliable and accurate. North Norfolk has one of the lowest cases of Covid per 100k since the pandemic started at 2808.2 (MK where I used to live has 7,190 and the highest is Blackburn with Darwen at 11,618.2).