Stan's Weather Site

What is happening to the data???!!?

As most of you may be aware by now, I have been experiencing failures with my equipment. The failure appears to be in the console. That means that the only option to once again have a reliable system is to replace the entire setup, because my current sensor suite is not compatible with replacement consoles. Since a complete replacement is required, I would like to upgrade to a system that can provide solar radiation and UV exposure data as well. This does not add much to the final cost vs. replacing the setup as it is now. However, the cost is quite significant at $1,000.

PLEASE HELP!!!!

There have been a couple of very kind hearted and generous folks that have sent me e-mails stating their willingness to keep this site operational and accurate by contributing funds to help with the replacement costs. I am greatly appreciative of their offers, but I was hoping to find a way to take care of the replacement myself. 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 should at least provide an avenue for you to support the maintenance and operation of this site, if you so choose. Therefore, 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

Replacing the current weather station hardware with this newer model.

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!)

Goal - Replacement Weather Station $1,000.00       Current donations (less PayPal fees) $96.80       Percent of Goal 9.68%

	Forecast Icons, Forecast, Messages, and Warnings from Vantage Pro Console:
	Increasing clouds with little temperature change.

Today's Weather Almanac
Sunrise 07:07	Sunset 17:27	Moon Age/Phase 5 Waxing Crescent	Moon Rise 09:17	Moon Set 22:06	Heating Degree Days 24	Cooling Degree Days 0
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 62° 2003	10 Year Average High Temperature 47.5°	Record Low Temperature 7° 2007	10 Year Average Low Temperature 19.2°	10 Year Average Rainfall To Date 0.48"	Record Daily Rainfall 0.42" 2005	Record Wind Gust WNW 38 MPH 2009
One Year Ago Today
High Temperature 51°		Low Temperature 23°		Daily Rainfall 0.00"	YTD Rainfall 0.07"	Wind Gust NW 24 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:

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

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