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Do Weather Stations Dream of Electric Raindrops?

Posted by: jorpet, 5:36 PM GMT on February 13, 2012

My old weather station has been pretty dependable over the last four years. Only the occasional hiccup when batteries in the sending unit get low. Now, in the last two weeks it is having issues almost every other day. Is it just starting to wind down knowing it is soon to be replaced?

Once I get the new station, I hope to run them in parallel for a couple weeks to verify everything prior to cutting over to the new weather station for reporting here. Will see how that goes.

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Murphy's Law

Posted by: jorpet, 3:47 PM GMT on February 10, 2012

Well, as everyone knows, Murphy's law will always prevail. If something can go wrong it will.So Tuesday the weather station was increasingly showing bad temps through the night. This has always been an indication that the batteries in the temperature sender are getting low. So I went out, changed the batteries, all looked good.I then watched the information come in for about 30 minutes to be sure the sender was still connected to the base. New temps were coming ...

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New weather station equipment soon

Posted by: jorpet, 11:29 PM GMT on February 02, 2012

Hoping to update the weather station equipment in the next month or two. Would like to finally go to a Davis VP2 from the older La Crosse that I have had the last four year.

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Amazing weather for Seattle

Posted by: jorpet, 3:45 AM GMT on December 22, 2008

The last week has been pretty amazing for our area. Nearly 10 inches of snow in the last three days with another 6-8 expected overnight. Hasn't been above freezing here for over a week.The wind speed indicator froze up this morning with the freezing rain. Probably won't be working again until next weekend when temps are expected to be back above freezing for an extended time.

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Today the temperature flatlined

Posted by: jorpet, 5:37 AM GMT on May 14, 2008

Total temperature change today was 4.5F from high to low. Almost a perfectly flat line all day long. The dew point temp was rising the whole time as the humidity kept increasing.Got a bit of rain, but not much to speak of. Now they are talking about a high of 88F by Friday. That will be a change.

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Weather has always fascinated me. I have enjoyed watching Wunderground grow from the beginning and finally was able to add my own station.

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