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. Here 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.
My station data is continuously uploaded to Wunderground. My Wunderground ID is KMILIVON2. Click the icon below for current data.
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 DataNote: 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.
