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Recordist's notes
An 'explosive cyclogenic' fuelled storm passing through Edinburgh, Winter 2025. Storm Éowyn deepened by 50 millibars in 24 hours. Winds recordered passing through building cladding and temporary scaffold on the Kings Building campus of Edinburgh University. 24th January 2025 MKH 8020 spaced pair + Zoom F3
About the place
Edinburgh is a city of about 514,990 people in Scotland, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 21 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom F3 and Sennheiser MKH microphones. A tiny two-input 32-bit float recorder – no gain setting needed.
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Watering the gardens behind the house where Catherine Hogarth was born
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Sources & credits
- “Darwin Building, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH9 3JU, UK - Storm Éowyn Edinburgh University” by simon.opit – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0