Weather station

km79

Other half got me weather station for Xmas
Oregon scientific wireless pro
I've a couple of questions for anyone who has one
1 . Rain gauge set up. It's a plastic container with 4 screw spaces on bottom. Should I screw it into a brick and set it down somewhere or onto a fence post ?
2
Again it's plastic and suggests screwing into a fence post which I can do. But is it solid enough in Yere experience ?
3
Temperature sensor.
Back of the house is south facing and exposed so I guess I should put it on side of house ? Or north side of shed but this would generally be shaded
TIA

Villain

km79 wrote: »

Other half got me weather station for Xmas
Oregon scientific wireless pro
I've a couple of questions for anyone who has one
1 . Rain gauge set up. It's a plastic container with 4 screw spaces on bottom. Should I screw it into a brick and set it down somewhere or onto a fence post ?
2
Again it's plastic and suggests screwing into a fence post which I can do. But is it solid enough in Yere experience ?
3
Temperature sensor.
Back of the house is south facing and exposed so I guess I should put it on side of house ? Or north side of shed but this would generally be shaded
TIA

I don't have that particular station but have expierence with quite a few.

1. If it's the one I think its quite large and fixing to a heavy piece of wood should be enough to stop the wind causing problems, just keep it level.

2. Don't over tighten and you'll be fine.

3. The more exposed the better but I don't think the sensor has much of a shield so a shaded area would be better. You could look at building a radiation shield and placing the sensor in it in the future.

km79

Thanks very helpful.
Just noticed that the wind sensor has to be positioned facing north which will force a rethink as the north side of shed is probably too sheltered

kkontour

I also got a maplin one from the missus
Not sure on how to read the pressure. Do I use relative or absolute.
Does it need to be calibrated?
Thanks
K

km79

It's not picking up the wind sensor now

Deep Easterly

km79 wrote: »

It's not picking up the wind sensor now

It is flat calm here in this part of east Galway KM, I am reading zero, perhaps that is it?

km79

Deep Easterly wrote: »

km79 wrote: »

It's not picking up the wind sensor now

It is flat calm here in this part of east Galway KM, I am reading zero, perhaps that is it?

Maybe but I don't think so. It's spinning

Deep Easterly

km79 wrote: »

Maybe but I don't think so. It's spinning

Ah, ok. I have no idea how your particular station works, is there a chance that the wind sensor is out of the range or that you have the weather console too close to a thick wall that might be blocking the signal? Sorry can't be of any more help.

km79

Got it working 2.5 MPH breeze :only worked for a minute .
Can't get Readings from it On base station. I've tried everything resetting both , moving wind sensor, testing indoors beside base station.
Has anyone any other tips.
The weather station is Oregon model WMR88

km79

One of the batteries was the wrong way around LOL

waytoowarm

thinking of setting up a ws here , any sudgestions of a good 1 to get??? thanks in advance

kenmc

Right, so with the impending several feet of snow* due in the next couple of days, how the hell do I manage to get my weather station to measure snowfall amounts? Or do I just have to stick a post in the garden and mark heights on it and go and read it like the olden days?

(*) a man can dream, can't he?

Iancar29

kenmc wrote: »

Right, so with the impending several feet of snow* due in the next couple of days, how the hell do I manage to get my weather station to measure snowfall amounts? Or do I just have to stick a post in the garden and mark heights on it and go and read it like the olden days?

(*) a man can dream, can't he?

Only the brave can do these sort of measurement! ... VERY TECHNICAL....


STEP 1.....








:rolleyes:

kenmc

Don't be rediculous, everyone knows that a tape measure is for measuring how LONG things are. NOT how DEEP things are! I have to get a different sort of do-hickey for that :pac:

No but seriously - how do i convert the (hopefully!) pile of snow which will be sitting on top of my rain gauge in the morning into mms of precip; if it's cold enough for the snow to hang around it'll mostly not be melting into the gauge.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

kenmc wrote: »

Don't be rediculous, everyone knows that a tape measure is for measuring how LONG things are. NOT how DEEP things are! I have to get a different sort of do-hickey for that :pac:

No but seriously - how do i convert the (hopefully!) pile of snow which will be sitting on top of my rain gauge in the morning into mms of precip; if it's cold enough for the snow to hang around it'll mostly not be melting into the gauge.

Thought 1cm of snow equals 1mm of rain ?

Su Campu

There can be a wide range of snow-water equivalents, from 5:1 for very wet snow up to 50:1 for dry fluffy snow. That would mean 1 mm of rain equivalent for every 5 or 50 mm of snow depth.

pistolpetes11

Rite dont want to start a new thread for this but can anyone help me getting my weather station data online ?

Is there a hosting site or I do I need to use my own website.

I have a WRM 100 and am using Cumulus software at the moment

Cheers for any help , much appreciated .

Villain

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Rite dont want to start a new thread for this but can anyone help me getting my weather station data online ?

Is there a hosting site or I do I need to use my own website.

I have a WRM 100 and am using Cumulus software at the moment

Cheers for any help , much appreciated .

Well you can get hosting and a domain for €60 a year <snip>

Need any help just shout.

pistolpetes11

Villain wrote: »

Well you can get hosting and a domain for €60 a year <snip>

Need any help just shout.

I have one already its just got a holding page on it at the moment

www.vim.ie

Villain

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I have one already its just got a holding page on it at the moment

www.vim.ie

Ok so depends on what you want to achieve and what knowledge you have of php ftp etc

See http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/Settings-config-Cumulus.php thats the template I use on carlowweather.com

Have you been using cumulus for long, Weather Display makes life a bit easier imo

pistolpetes11

Villain wrote: »

Ok so depends on what you want to achieve and what knowledge you have of php ftp etc

See http://saratoga-weather.org/wxtemplates/Settings-config-Cumulus.php thats the template I use on carlowweather.com

Have you been using cumulus for long, Weather Display makes life a bit easier imo

I have the paid version of Weather Display Live , but I found the software very buggy , If her nibbs turned off the PC or put it into Hibernation I could not get the WD to start picking up data again .

Il have a look at the link and see what I have to do ,

Cheers

All I really want to do is have the station data in my signature like yourself and a few others

Villain

Well that graphic in my sig is generated from WD, I had the same issues with weather display in the past but not on the latest version, although you really need to have the pc on 24x7

pistolpetes11

Villain wrote: »

Well that graphic in my sig is generated from WD, I had the same issues with weather display in the past but not on the latest version, although you really need to have the pc on 24x7

I had told her all rite to not turn off the PC , now I have to leave sticky notes on it


Although I did notice that origan scientific launched an ew weather server at CES this year ,

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/08/oregon-scientific-remote-weather-access-platform/

Trogdor

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I have the paid version of Weather Display Live , but I found the software very buggy , If her nibbs turned off the PC or put it into Hibernation I could not get the WD to start picking up data again .

Il have a look at the link and see what I have to do ,

Cheers

All I really want to do is have the station data in my signature like yourself and a few others

I use WD live myself but have never been able to get WD itself working properly and believe me i tried! At the moment i use weatherlink to update my webpages with WD live embedded in the current conditions page (although things like monthly figures etc are enough often wrong due to WD).
There is a very nifty piece of software called graphweather which piggybacks off the data files created by weather link, WD, etc (think it works with cumulus too). It produces nice graphs and figures and uploads them, comes with a good few templates which can be configured to your personal taste.
http://www.aguilmard.com/wordpress/?page_id=18
Here's an example of an image which i used to have as my sig before,
must get it up and running again properly again actually!

Tornando9

WD is brilliant when working right. I had huge issues when i was running it on XP home edition. But since last week i have been running it on an XP professional machine on its running sweet.

As Villian has pointed out WD will create the sig for you and is very easy to setup.
I love the text fuction on WD which send me an alert when the windpseed reaches a certain level or the temp and DP drop low enough for the white stuff.(still waiting on that text)

My station is in Kildare http://tinyurl.com/83wzue3

Tornando9

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I have the paid version of Weather Display Live , but I found the software very buggy

If it fails to start update any drivers associated with your station ie USB or COM port drivers.

Lumi

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I have the paid version of Weather Display Live , but I found the software very buggy , If her nibbs turned off the PC or put it into Hibernation I could not get the WD to start picking up data again .

Il have a look at the link and see what I have to do ,

Cheers

All I really want to do is have the station data in my signature like yourself and a few others

I can give you a hand to set up a banner for your sig using Cumulus if you like
That's what I'm running - have a look at mine & Drop me a PM if its what you're after

pistolpetes11

I might have to give it another go , Its a wrm100 I have , not sure where I will get the latest drivers , Il have a proper look about tomorrow.

Tornando9

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I might have to give it another go , Its a wrm100 I have , not sure where I will get the latest drivers , Il have a proper look about tomorrow.

If its USB try the USB to UART driver update here http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/Software/CP210x_VCP_Win_XP_S2K3_Vista_7.exe

It worked for my station which is a Davis VP2 with USB datalogger

gbee

During this high pressure period 1033 to 1036 hPa across Ireland, my main WS
[it's adjusted for absolute -4hPa] and this was in agreement with general trends.

WH1081 is showing 1027 hPa
WS110 says 1029 hPa
Kestrel 2500 says 1034

This is a high pressure for my station and at lower pressure all my instruments had been in agreement seemingly my sensor is adrift as the pressure changes, I already know my temperature accuracy drifts too high as it gets warmer.

Just for reference.

alfalad

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I had told her all rite to not turn off the PC , now I have to leave sticky notes on it


Although I did notice that origan scientific launched an ew weather server at CES this year ,

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/08/oregon-scientific-remote-weather-access-platform/

Excellent, had asked about something that would hook into a wireless network etc and this sounds pretty good.