Malmanac Local Data

Daily rainfall data are submitted to the My Tyne project (Tyne Rivers Trust). Data and images from Malmanac's weathervane, air quality sensors and webcam are published to public repositories:

• Met Office Weather Observation Website (WOW) weather observation data
• Sensor.Community (formerly Luftdaten) air quality data
• Windy webcam image

More Information

The sources of the presented information are described in the credits. Web pages with related information can be found at:

• Air pollution current levels, definitions, descriptors and forecasts from DEFRA and European air quality index maps from the European Environment Agency
• Pollen forecast from the Met Office
• Daylight saving time by timeanddate.com
• Earthquakes by the British Geological Survey
• Flood warnings, reservoir flood maps, alerts and flood risk map from the UK flood information service
• Storm overflows and outfalls by Northumbrian Water
• International Space Station trajectories by the European Space Agency
• Magnetic Declination and Grid Varience by the British Geological Survey, Ordnance Survey and MapTools
• River levels upstream in the Ouseburn at Crag Hall, Jesmond Dene and Gosforth, and the Tyne at Corbridge, Hexham and Ugly Dub by Shoothill and Farson Digital Water Cams
• River tides and explanations from Tide Times, Admiralty EasyTide, Tides4Fishing and the Royal Yachting Association
• Sea tides at North Shields by XTide
• Space weather and index levels from the British Geological Survey
• Tsunami warnings from CWarn
• Weather forecasts from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and Ventusky
• Weather warnings by the Met Office.

Other Notes

The actual water level in the Ouseburn at The Malings is dependent upon many additional factors including River Tyne flowrate, Ouseburn flowrate, Ouseburn Barrage gate position and weir level, air pressure, wind-driven storm surges, silt scouring, and any storm drain surcharge. For more information see the Environment Agency's Tyne Catchment Flood Management Plan (2009)/ (2012) and Ouseburn Surface Water Management Plan (2015), and Newcastle City Council's Local Flood Risk Management Plan (2016).

Reservoirs often help reduce flooding. Gateshead City Council have also published Inundation Map (Kielder) which illustrates the largest area that might be flooded if a reservoir like Kielder Reservior were to fail and release the water it holds (explanation and more). See also online flood risk map.

About www.malmanac.uk

Live data displayed is drawn from processes which update monthly, daily, hourly or more frequently. This is The Malings Almanac (Malmanac):

• Version 1.67
• 13 Oct 2025

Malmanac was conceived during November 2017 and launched on 29 January 2018. It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and was made from a local Raspberry Pi Model 3 B with camera module (upgraded in 2022 to a Raspberry Pi Zero W with high-quality camera), an internet-hosted Apache HTTPD web server, several open data providers, a little design, and lots of software written in Python. In summer 2025, a teletext service was developed named MALTEXT, that displays a subset of data from the Malings Almanac and information about events at BottleWorks pop-up space and the nearby area. MALTEXT is periodically displayed live on a monitor in a window at BottleWorks when there is not an occupier.

Malmanac at www.malmanac.uk and the MALTEXT teletext pages are a personally-created and maintained website, and information is provided in good faith for reasonable use.

Lower Ouseburn

The Lower Ouseburn Valley Conservation Area is defined in the Character Statement and Conservation Area Management Plan. It spans both Ouseburn and Byker wards. The area has a medium-term the Regeneration Plan, and an Urban Design Framework which sets out generic design principles and general land-use planning and transportation issues for the redevelopment of the valley.

The Ouseburn Trust aims to achieve a vibrant, diverse and sustainable future for the Ouseburn Valley, delivering the objectives of the Regeneration Plan.

Three organisations particularly active with matters relating to the river, surface water run-off and flooding are:

• Ouseburn Trust
• Wild Intrigue
• Tyne Rivers Trust

The Malings

The Malings, a housing development by Carillion-Igloo, is situated on the east bank of the Lower Ouseburn (in ONS output area E00042114), between Ouseburn Bridge (Byker Bank) and Glasshouse Bridge (Walker Road) near the Tyne. It is part of Byker Ward in the City of Newcastle, located on the site of the former Malings Ford A Pottery. It is within the Lower Ouseburn Valley Conservation Area.

Homes at The Malings lie between Hume Street/Maling Street and Riverside Walk, and include the postal addresses of:

• Maling Terrace (1-10 NE6 1LZ)
• Luxor Row (1-12 NE6 1LG)
• Rosalind Place (1-10 NE6 1LJ)
• Kingfisher Place (1-16 NE6 1LT)
• Peony Place (1-9 NE6 1LU)
• Riverside Walk (1-8 NE6 1LX)
• Maling Street (14-27 NE6 1LP).

People of The Malings

The homes are inhabited by diverse people whom you can listen to at peopleofthemalings, a web project by the architects of The Malings Ash Sakula.

Contact

For any queries, comments or compliments about Malmanac, please email [email protected], or by making contact using @[email protected] on Mastodon which toots environmental, astronomical, tidal and river data throughout every day. You can also send post to Malings Almanac c/o BottleWorks, 8 Riverside Walk, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 1LX.

Credits

Weather, air quality and astronomical data: Current local weather and air pollution conditions from the Malings Almanac's own weathervane and air quality sensors. Pollen forecast from Met Office. Short-term weather forecast and UV index from Open Meteo. International Space Station visibility data for Newcastle from Heavens Above. Weather alerts from the MetOffice. Tsunami warnings from CWarn Tsunami Early Warning System. Celestial calculations performed using the PyEphem library.

Tide times and river level data: Primary source for tide data from Tide Times for Newcastle upon Tyne based on data from the UK Hydrograph Office for Newcastle upon Tyne. Current level estimate interpolated using a formula provided by New Zealand Nautical Almanac 2017. Tyne Estuary and Ouseburn at Byker flood warnings provided by the UK Environment Agency. Drain, pumping station and sewage treatment outfall spill data into the Ouesburn, its tributaries, Ouseburn estuary and Tyne estuary, provided near real-time unverified, by Northumbrian Water.

Address data: Postcodes from Royal Mail, 3 word address from the What3Words, and walking route map self-created.

Ground level data: Ouseburn Barrage design drawings from the Newcastle Photos Blog and additional information from the Ouseburn Trust River Users Group. Flood levels from the risk assessment for The Malings development (planning application 2012/1277), by AMEC Environmental and Infrastructure UK.

Species data: animal, bird, fish, insect, plant, fungi and other data from the iNaturalist API, which predominantly includes observations in the local area as a result of Wild Intrigue's Wild Ouseburn project which spans a larger area.

Earthquake data: Records from British Geological Survey.

Space weather: Geomagnetic actrivity from British Geological Survey. Aurora alert levels from AuroraWatch UK.

Declination data: Calculated using maptools.com and bgs.ac.uk.

Clock change data: Times from gov.uk.

Icons: Moon phases and weather forecasts by Erik Flowers. Current weather icons created by Peter Schmalfeldt from Ashley Jager's designs. All other icons from the Noun Project: air pollution based on smog by Yu luck; aurora based on aurora borealis by Diheksa26; pollution by Chintuza; flooding based on flood by Arthur Shlain; uv level based on uv by Suprihatin; reservoir inundation based on dam by iconsmind.com, space weather by BomSymbols, tsunami based on tsunami by H Alberto Gongora, earthquake by abdul karim; kingfisher by Connor Fowler; Low/high tide and moonrise/moonset by Xinh Studio; pollen by Ali Khamdan; sunrise/sunset by Bryn Taylor; space station by Lucid Formation; solar system by lastspark. Noun Project icons are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License.