Stan's Weather Site

	Forecast Icons, Forecast, Messages, and Warnings from Vantage Pro Console:
	Mostly cloudy and cooler. Windy with possible wind shift to the W, NW, or N.

Today's Weather Almanac
Sunrise 06:13	Sunset 20:09	Moon Age/Phase 19 Waning Gibbous	Moon Rise 22:19	Moon Set 10:25	Heating Degree Days 5	Cooling Degree Days 0
NOTE:  Records keeping began on 2001-09-09
Record High Temperature 92° 2005	8 Year Average High Temperature 86.1°	Record Low Temperature 45° 2005	8 Year Average Low Temperature 51.2°	8 Year Average Rainfall To Date 6.45"	Record Daily Rainfall 0.08" 2007	Record Wind Gust SW 34 MPH 2009
One Year Ago Today
High Temperature 79°		Low Temperature 48°		Daily Rainfall 0.04"	YTD Rainfall 5.34"	Wind Gust SW 34 MPH

The current weather frame above auto-refreshes every 60 seconds. Items with a red background are values that are rising. Items with a blue background are falling. Items with a white background are current extreme values.

I also have available a searchable database of the daily extreme values I have observed. This information dates back to September, 2001 when I was finally able to get the very first version of what would become vanprod working. The graphs above show the previous 12 hours. There are also graphs available for the past 4 hours, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, and 180 days.

The data on this site are collected from my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro weather station. The station is sited with the main sensor suite about 5 - 1/2 feet above ground in the back yard. The anemometer is not quite as high as official NWS standards call out, as it is only at 23 feet above ground. It is high enough above the roofline of the house and outbuilding that it is not directly obstructed and seems to do a reasonable job measuring wind speeds. My location is just to the East of New Mexico's central mountain chain about 20 miles from Albuquerque.

The values are read from the station by vanprod, which is a daemon I wrote and am currently continuing to develop. The graphs are produced on the fly by cgi scripts that read the RRDs (Round Robin Databases) written by vanprod. Vanprod is distributed locally and from my directory on cpan.org.

This website and also vanprod are available as a community service. Folks living in the Edgewood area are frequent visitors to the site, but on occasion I have logged visitors such as the National Weather Service, US Forestry, and US Fish and Wildlife. I welcome these professionals who may find these data useful in their respective jobs. If you would like to help support this site, consider a donation via paypal to my e-mail address -- stsander at sblan dot net.

I gladly upload these data to:

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I am also a spotter for my local weather service office in Albuquerque, NM.

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