Weather Station
- Oregon Scientific WM-918
- Battery backup and UPS backup (uninterruptible power supply)
- Wind speed and direction unit is tower side mounted 55 feet above ground and approx 650' ASL.
- Temperature and humidity sensors are in a shaded area 10 feet above ground
- Rain gauge is an automatic emptying type
- Known issues:
- Wind speed may read low due to nearby trees. This is most noticeable in the
southerly directions in the summer. Compare winds near
Point Clark
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The weather station is
close to the water which will moderate the temperatures, especially
during westerly winds. This often results in higher temperatures in the
winter and lower in the summer than what you would see further inland.
Computer
- Dedicated Pentium 3-600 running Windows XP
- 384mb Ram
- Protected with a UPS
- Video capture - Express 6 Video Server
- Internet - high speed cable
Camera
- 2 Express video cameras feed the Video
Server
Software
& Interface
- The weather data is transferred from the WM-918 to the
computer via a RS 232 serial interface every 5 seconds
- This is accomplished using Andy Keir's FreeWX program
- The camera is feeding streaming video to the server and a snap shot is saved every 3 minutes. The image is
then sent to the www.kyc.ca server where
the latest image is saved and the last 10 images are changed to a video.
- Approximately every 6 minutes FreeWX uploads the latest weather data and snap shot to www.pilor.com
- The data you see on the internet
should be no more than 7minutes old. Assuming your clock and mine are
set for the same time! The weather computer clock is corrected to exact
time every 24 hours.
- The website is of my own design using HTML and some Java
Future
- Move the wind speed and direction unit to the top of the tower to reduce tree and tower effect.
...DONE, but nearby trees may still may make it read low
- New internet network cameras ...DONE
- Add backup camera ...DONE
- New website design completed June 8, 2007
- Have a suggestion? Email the Webmaster
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