Stan's Weather Site

Broken Console Update

A new station setup has been ordered. Expected arrival is around 18 May. In the meantime certain parts of the site are temporarily unavailable due to some other changes I am implementing at this time. This site and the weather station console are no longer connected to the same physical computer.

THANK YOU AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO HELP!!!!

There have been several very kind hearted and generous folks that have sent contributions to help with the replacement costs. I am greatly appreciative of their generosity!!! I HATE fundraising both asking for money and being asked for money. However, I recognize that the data on this site can prove to be valuable information for the members of the Edgewood community. As such I will continue to provide an avenue for you to support the maintenance and operation of this site, if you so choose. I have set up a PayPal account where you can contribute any amount as often as you may choose to support my efforts in providing weather data to the community. Simply click the Donate button below. I am a hobbyist, not a non-profit organization so contributions are not tax-deductible. Be assured that all donations received will be used as follows:

Covering PayPal fees for the account

Continuing to offset the replacement cost of the weather station

Other ongoing maintenance and operation costs directly related to keeping the site available. (Example: the computer that collects the data from the station is nearly eight years old!)

Replacement Weather Station $1,065.68       Current donations (less PayPal fees) $594.57       Percent of Goal 55.7%

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

Today's Weather Almanac
Sunrise 05:59	Sunset 20:03	Moon Age/Phase 27 Waning Crescent	Moon Rise 03:54	Moon Set 17:22	Heating Degree Days 0	Cooling Degree Days 1
NOTE:  Records keeping began on 2001-09-09, but due to hardware failure in the weather station console a large part of the data from 2011 is missing
Record High Temperature 86° 2003	10 Year Average High Temperature 75.7°	Record Low Temperature 34° 2010	10 Year Average Low Temperature 42.2°	10 Year Average Rainfall To Date 3.41"	Record Daily Rainfall 0.27" 2007	Record Wind Gust SSE 53 MPH 2010
One Year Ago Today
High Temperature 69°		Low Temperature 39°		Daily Rainfall 0.00"	YTD Rainfall 1.02"	Wind Gust W 38 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. Unfortunately a lot of data from 2011 is missing due to the hardware failure of the console. 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 in Edgewood, NM 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 the donation button above.

I gladly upload these data to:

Plan your trip Local Radar Detailed Forecast

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

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