Rochester Lodge Weather

New weather software

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:00:00 +0000

After a long time using FreeWX I have moved over to Cumulus software. This is because FreeWX is no longer being developed, and Cumulus is currently well supported.

FreeWX served me well, I have no complaints.

Unfortunately I now have the job of converting the past logs, going back to 2003.

Main blog page now updated

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:23:00 +0000

WeatherBonk no longer in business

This is a trial post from Android blogger

Humm, wunderground google gadget does not work at 400x400

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:46:00 +0000

Weather Underground are not interested in fixing it. It looks like I will have to go back to Weatherbonk for the PWS map on my main weather page

This blog has moved

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:36:00 +0000

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Sorted a wunderground map at long last

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:41:00 +0000

Weatherbonk had just become too unreliable. The Google embedded gadget is also more versatile.

Big thunderstorm

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:20:00 +0000

I thought the lightning had fried the wind sensor, but eventually, after resetting the weather station, it came back. The reset knocked out the barometer calibration and I still have to update the accumulated rainfall which has been lost.

23mm of water fell in about 30s

New view of weather installation

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:09:00 +0000

Using Google street view, see bottom of page. You can just make out the anemometer and wind direction mast on the far chimney stack, the white cylinder on the wall is the outdoor temperature and humidity sensor. The white blob on the ridge to the right is the rainguage. The indoor temperature, humidity and pressure sensor is - indoors.

Power failure

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0000

RCD tripped at 5am, UPS exhausted at 7am, power restored at 7:30

Rearranged the mainweb page a bit

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:20:00 +0000

added another 2 hPa to pressure

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:45:00 +0000

Should be in the middle of surrounding stations now (Kenley, Biggin Hill, London Weather Centre)

Pressure adjusted

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:32:00 +0000

After reports of being low I have added 4hPa to the pressure

Current week graphs are back in the left hand window

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:16:00 +0000

Click it for day/month/year, etc

wunderground has stopped showing data for this week

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:34:00 +0000

Current month does not work either, so I've switched to showing the last three months in the left hand set of graphs

Multiple power failures

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:01:00 +0000

Exhausted the capacity of the UPS so we have lost all uploads between 10:38 and 14:01 today

Lots of problems with CWOP feed into APRS

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:50:00 +0000

On 19/1/08 I was prevented from uploading to the APRS server network, on the 21st I found out why. I was sending data at one minute intervals, whilst this makes a nice graph which captures wind gusts, it (along with a large number of other stations) creates too large a load on the servers. There was an announcement on 16/1 which I missed.

http://www.wxqa.com/news.html

The proper answer to this is to change the way some software uploads (FreeWX, which I use, is OK), in order to load balance and avoid many stations trying to upload at exactly the same time on the minute boundary. The short term solution is to increase the upload interval.

I am now using cwop.aprs.net and have reduced my upload rate in line with the recommendations and am back on line.

Added another mB to air pressure

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:15:00 +0000

Differential now 12mB

First pressure adjustment

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:00:00 +0000

Added 2mB to the sea level pressure adjustment, now the differential is +11mB

Pressure recalibration needed

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:37:00 +0000

Comparing atmospheric pressure with surrounding stations, it seems to be 2.5 mB low, so I'll adjust it upwards over the next few days.

No external updates from 19:30 yesterday

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:10:00 +0000

until just now (four and a half hours), due to ISP outage

Another upload failure

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:58:00 +0000

From 06:20 to now

Uploads stalled for a few days

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:01:00 +0000

Since 6:30 on Friday 3/8/07 the web page has not been updated, but records are OK.

Big downpour

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:50:00 +0000

58mm of rain in one hour, just stopping

High wind speeds

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:17:00 +0000

There is a problem wth the anemometer recording high wind spikes. This is during thunderstorm activity, either there is a static build up or the radio transmission is disrupted.

Hopefully, earthing the mast will stop it.

Uploads blocked

noreply@blogger.com (jpsc) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:44:00 +0000

From 23:30 on 7/7/07 to 2:40 on 9/7/07 due to an errant router. The in-house log is OK