Stan's Weather Site

The data on this site can prove to be valuable information for the members of the Edgewood community, and I am happy to provide it as a community service. If you would like to help support this site, consider a donation via the donation 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 solely for the operation and maintenance of this weather site.

	Exposure Time Before Skin Damage Based on skin type
Exposure Category	Very White Little or no pigmentation	Average White Some tanning	Light Brown Rich tan / tans easily	Dark Brown Middle Eastern, Latin American
MINIMAL	> 60 minutes	> 60 minutes	> 60 minutes	> 60 minutes
LOW	20 - 40 minutes	45 - 60 minutes	> 60 minutes	> 60 minutes
MODERATE	10 - 20 minutes	20 - 40 minutes	45 - 60 minutes	> 60 minutes
HIGH	< 10 minutes	10 - 20 minutes	20 - 40 minutes	> 60 minutes
EXTREME	< 10 minutes	< 10 minutes	10 - 20 minutes	45 - 60 minutes

Forecast Icons, Forecast, Messages, and Warnings from Vantage Pro Console:
Increasing clouds with little temperature change. Precipitation possible within 6 hours. Windy with possible wind shift to the W, NW, or N.

Today's Weather Almanac
Sunrise 05:51	Sunset 20:21	Moon Age/Phase 11 Waxing Gibbous	Moon Rise 15:18	Moon Set 01:49	Heating Degree Days 0	Cooling Degree Days 8
Record High Temperature 94° 2006	11 Year Average High Temperature 88.5°	Record Low Temperature 42° 2006	11 Year Average Low Temperature 53.9°	11 Year Average Rainfall To Date 3.80"	Record Daily Rainfall 0.03" 2003	Record Wind Gust SSW 43 MPH 2012
Yesterday
High Temperature 88°		Low Temperature 52°		Rainfall 0.00"	Maximum UV:   14.1 Maximum Solar Radiation:   1617 W/m 2	Wind Gust NNE 22 MPH
One Year Ago Today
High Temperature 93°		Low Temperature 61°		Daily Rainfall 0.00"	YTD Rainfall 2.01"	Wind Gust SSW 43 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, as official NWS standards call out, 33 feet above ground. 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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