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About This Station

This PWS (Personal Weather Station) is a Davis Vantage Pro2. The ISS (Integrated Sensor Suite) sends a data packet to the console every 2 ½ seconds. The weather conditions that are the most variable (such as wind speed and direction) are updated with each packet, while most other conditions are updated every 10 seconds.

Weather Display receives the data from the console, analyzes and stores the data, and updates the web pages. The current conditions on the home page, and Weather Display Live, are updated every 10 seconds.

Weather Display also uploads the station's data to Weather Underground, which in return provides a radar screen, records and the advisory map.

My web cams are Panasonic network IP cams, models BB-HCM371A and BB-HCM331A, which come with web servers, and an Internet address. They are available live, and upload to Weather Underground, which produces the all day video.

The menus are based on Stu Nicholls' CSS menu design. Ken True put together a nice script to create a menu on page load. The new web page design is based on the sinorca-gradient template by Haran.

A big thanks to Tom at Carter Lake, with inspiration by Kevin Reed, for the template that my original page was based on. Tom also wrote the original versions of the scripts to read the forecast, the weather warnings and the Ajax updates. Thanks to Anole for the weather banner that I use. I'd also like to thank Pinto for the code to read the Weather Display client files. Pinto also is the creator of my graphs, with some additions by Broadstairs. Thanks to Ken True, for many scripts, including the meso-buoy map, work on the Ajax code, and updates to the site status, advisories and forecast scripts. Ken True also wrote the software for the Southwestern Weather Network, and ported it for the Northeastern and Mid Atlantic Weather Networks.

MCHALLIS has written a number of scripts used here, including the Contact Form, Who's Online (see the summary below), NOAA Top Weather Advisory Alerter PHP Script, NWS Weather Forecast Messenger PHP Script and Weather Display Conditions Messenger PHP Script. The last three update my Twitter page.

The Cellular (wap) Weather page is by jmcmurry, who also wrote the forecast comparison script and contributed to other scripts used here.

A number of people contributed to the current conditions gizmo, including Kevin Reed, Pinto, Tom at Carter Lake and Ken True. The gizmo appears in the upper right corner of this, and various other pages. The Cloud base graphic courtesy of Bashewa Weather

The heat comfort level uses the Feels Like temperature. View the chart here.


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Who Is Online Summary


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12 Visitors online right now
Max visitors today: 12 at 07:28 pm BST
This month: 12 at 09-03-2010 07:28 pm BST
This year: 27 at 08-16-2010 10:56 pm BST
All time: 43 at 12-16-2009 08:38 am GMT


"So how's the web site coming along?", asks George.
"We've had 5,000 hits and only 3,000 were Tyler checking to see if the web page was still there", says Ernie.
From My Hero



Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- Bernard Baruch

New Holland, Pa Weather Station Status

This table shows the current status of the weather software used in the operation of this website.

Component Status Age
Secs
Latest update time as of
03-Sep-2010 2:29:53pm EDT
10 Sec Updates Current 7 03-Sep-2010 2:29:46pm EDT
GRLevel3 (1.75) Radar FTP Current 128 03-Sep-2010 2:27:45pm EDT
GRLevel3 (Dover) (1.52) Radar FTP Current 44 03-Sep-2010 2:29:09pm EDT
NexStorm (1.7.0.2612) TRACreport NOT Current 505096 > 615 secs
28-Aug-2010 6:11:37pm EDT
NexStorm (1.7.0.2612) Data NOT Current 505101 > 615 secs
28-Aug-2010 6:11:32pm EDT
WASP2 (2.2.3167.20051) Lightning Map
upload
NOT Current 505140 > 1215 secs
28-Aug-2010 6:10:53pm EDT
WXSIM (12.6) Forecast (updated 4 X day)
last upload Fri September 03 2010 13:33:23
Current 5693 03-Sep-2010 12:55:00pm EDT

Vantage Pro2 Status

Signal Reception: 94% Console Battery: 4.7 ISS battery: Ok

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