Data is continuously uploaded to Weather Underground, PWS Weather, Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP), and the Met Office in the UK. Scroll down for links and real time temperature, wind, lightning and sky web cam.
New Weather Station! Davis Vantage Pro 2 has replaced the AAG. The wind vane has failed (again) and I decided to upgrade. The Davis Vantage Pro2 is now uploading to Weather Underground and CWOP via WeatherlinkIP
This weather station consists of the following hardware
The Weather Station was remounted in a new location on November 13, 2004. The weather station and rain gauge both survived the wind disaster, with only some bracket and clamp damage. I hope that the wind direction and speed are more accurate since the anemometer and vane are now above the roof level of the house. The old location was at the peak end of the garage.
The original Dallas Semiconductor station (dating from 1998) was replaced due to bad reed switch in the NE position possibly from the tree incident. The current station is a V3 AAG Station. This was put up on July 16, 2005.
* The temperature sensor inside the Wx Station reads too high from roof heat in the summer and low in the winter possibly due to temperature inversions. Thus I use the temperature sensor mounted in a box with a fan on the north side of the house where it is in the shade at all times.
I installed a Hobby Boards Lightning Detector [LD4-R1-A]. I installed it into a section of 3/4 inch PVC pipe and a conduit body. The antenna is in the pipe section and the detector board is in the conduit body section. This is also on the One Wire Weather network and is recognized by the OWW program as GPC1. There will be background noise counts, but lightning should show up as numerous counts. Above is a view from the back of the house showing the detector just below the Weather Station.
The plot program is captured from a desktop plotting utility called trend. It is in scrolling mode and the freshest data is the brighter white and originates from the right side. Older data appears as a faded intensity white line. The vertical ticks are approximately 10 minutes apart.
Webcam is operational as of 18 Feb 2011. The camera direction is approximately SSW and is aimed to minimize the potential for sun damage. It is a 640x480 image, so it is not "high definition" by any means. You can see cloud cover pretty well. Weather Underground will pull in this image rather than a direct upload. This image will update once per minute.
The old Dallas Semiconductor Rain Gauge has been taken down and replaced with a Davis unit. The tipping bucket switch is interfaced to a Hobby Boards Dual Counter (DC3-R1-A) located indoors.
Seen below is a photo of the rain gauge installation. The Davis unit is mounted on the white shelf. In the foreground is an old Weather Channel 4 inch rain gauge with an LED yard light for checking in the dark.
My station data is continuously uploaded to Wunderground. My Wunderground ID is KMILIVON2. Click the icon below for current data.
My station data is now uploaded to PWS Weather. The ID is CW4114 same as CWOP. Click the link below.
PWS WeatherThe temperature from the Deck area runs somewhat higher during sunny days than the Trh temperature in the aspirated enclosure. The Trh is what is posted to WU/CWOP/PWS. The Deck temperature falls in line with some neighboring weather stations, probably with more exposed housings. The Trh temperature is in a relatively cool, shaded location on the north side of the building. It agrees closely with other temperature sensors in the same location.
Deck Temperature and Wind Speed from rooftop anemometer
Plots generated with Ploticus in PNG format
I participate in the Citizens Weather Observer Program or CWOP.
CWOP CW4114 PageYou can look at my data and some quality control charts here:
Gladstone QC Charts for CW4114Look for CW4114 on the NOAA MADIS page by zooming in on the Detroit, Michigan Area. Wait for the data to load. It is helpful to add the OVERLAYS for Highways and Counties to get your bearings.
MADIS Surface DataData is now being sent to the UK Met Office. My ID is 23083067 for Livonia Michigan USA.
Note: SPAM that appears to be coming from this domain is not originating from miraculon.com. It is due to forged Reply To: headers in the SPAM email. I added some DNS countermeasures that seem to have been effective, however there are still a few that get past them.
