| 24Nov08 20:00 |
During Tuesday 25th November, there will be an interuption to the weather station. This is due to me moving ISP from BT Broadband
(see News 20Apr08) to Be Broadband who offer up to 24Mb for a 1/3rd off of
BT's price. I believe the work in the telephone exchange will take about
10 minutes, but the biggest delay will be 'me' realising I have lost the
connection and entering the new ISP details into my router. So if it
happens at 1am, the site will be offline for many hours. It has to
be acknowledged that the BT connection has been very stable during the
previous 6 months, but the download speed has not recovered. I
worked out what is wrong, but I cannot speak to anybody at BT who
understands and/or will pass me on to somebody that would appreciate the
mess they . So 6 months informing anybody who contacted me on ...@btconnect.com to use another
e-mail address and time to jump ship. On that note, take notice of
the new e-mail address on the contact page. weather@kennetsignalling.com
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| 02Jun08 12:00 |
| The website has been missing for the past 48 hours due to a transformer at the datacentre exploding and knocking down a few walls! But it seems things are coming back online... |
| 20Apr08 21:00 |
Too busy for news, but was I the only one working away last week that failed to see the website update? I reported a fault to BT on Monday 15th and it was 'escalated' to BT Wholesale. This problem was a very slow connection plus no FTP from the weather machine meaning no updates on the weather station. On Tuesday I received a mobile call telling me it was tweaked and some other stuff. On arriving home on Friday, I found the FTP suddenly working when it had not been up to that afternoon from Chippenham. Mmm!!! Well over the weekend, the "BT Broadband up to 8Mb" has been working at 120kb (twice the speed of a modem). I've now been told I've downloaded too much, so wait until the end of the month. It did not matter that I've been away with work Mon-Fri with little time at weekend, and asking for a factual answer rather than what the buffoon on the end of line believed got me nowhere. Anyway, I am being called tomorrow to tell me exactly home much I've downloaded each day this month. Whoopee! As soon as I get a free moment, BT broadband can take a hike. I'm paying over the odds, but balance that against the fact it is a company connection with so say unlimited downloads, as if I actually used them. Then it was suggested my Wi-Fi network was being used by people unknown. It doesn't seem to matter that the network is so secure, only hardware I've allowed can access it along with the secured password. But this helpdesk guessing/nonsense is beyond me. I wonder how they treat people who know nothing, and don't have a free phone helpline? So I am sorry if your weather has been interupted, but there are some back up addresses in place. This one can produce graphical content for any day YOU choose. http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ITHATCHA1 If you find www.thatcham-weather.info is not responding, try http://weather.kennetsignalling.com/index.html as this bypasses the normal address and leads you to the behind the scenes pages. Of course these two links assume the weather station is running, with no power interuptions, and a basic broadband connection at this end. But you need to save them to your favourites NOW, or you will not know them when you need them. Oh, and Heart Internet are still wonderful. Must find the time to move the hosting to them as well. |
| 01Jan08 18:00 |
Happy New Year :-) The 2008 menus should be operational now, with 2007 joining the archives. It's ALL available under the 'Historical' menu. I've been much too busy to study the weather. My daughters are now 1 and 4 years old, both healthy and even more beautiful by the day (See above why I do not recommend anything, and in case I am thought to be biased... No! If they were fuelled on Sunny Delight I would not mention them, but they are really lovely children, the like Which? would give 100/100 and a Best Buy! I do trust Which? (formerly the consumers association)) University studies are quiet having taken the mathematical modelling exam in October (passed), but are about to get awkward again as the new course starts in February. (Astro-physics). On top of this, I've been working night shifts since July 07. Add these things to the rest of my life and apart from my mind exisiting in a strange balance of imploding and exploding and there's hardly time to write this. But 2007 -
RECORDS!
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| 19Nov07 15:30 |
The website may or may not experience a short period of down time in the next 10 to 20 minutes as I've spent some money to move away from the clowns that were once award winning and respected. In fact I'm in the process of transferring all of my domain names from www.123-reg.co.uk to www.heartinternet.co.uk. They are actually cheaper which is a bonus, but the good news is they do not have the RANTS of '123-reg' on blogs and forums you find via Google. The 123-reg website still is completely quiet on the havoc they caused this weekend. I'd feel a little happier towards them if they just admitted they messed-up, but to post nothing! Oops! I can't post this message as FTP currently points at Heart Internet. The webspace IP address where the weather pages actually reside is currently propogating through the ether as of 15:49. |
| 18Nov07 13:00 |
I'd love to apologise for the lack of service during the previous 36 hours, but in this case I WILL NOT; read on. During the last month I've spent over £700 pounds on computer hardware to ensure Thatcham Weather continued to exist into the future, let alone the cost annual costs of silly things like batteries, 24hr electricity, insurance, (duplicate) weather hardware in case something fails, improved webcams, or my time when I could have been out earning real money, or playing with / teaching my daughters the alphabet, how to count, and why when I throw them up in the air, kinetic energy is transferred to gravitational potential energy and then back to kinetic, yet also adds an infinite amount of laughter that appears to come from nowhere. Then they learn about conservation of angular momentum, but I guess I am loosing you now... But what fun we have! Yet this weekend the company I pay money to for the name "www.thatcham-weather.info" failed catastrophically. I've personally got more than ten domain names with 'them', but fortunately none of them bring in an income. Other customers of 'theirs' do run businesses and are pulling their hair out! The failure was so unusual it is being talked about in online US technical publications just 12 hours after it happened. And instead of unusual, the describe it using terms such as 'incompetent', 'buffoons', 'disgrace' etc. Actual customers are shouting four letter words, including the C word! I am already investigating ways out of this mess knowing it may cost even more money. So I cannot promise better service today, tomorrow, next week, month, year, but I will spend time I do not really have and perhaps more money to get rid of this pooh. Sorry if I sound a bit<g> upset, but I supply Thatcham Weather for free, for the benefit of anybody that might be interested, at the same time willingly footing all costs. I'm lucky I have all of the data next to me, but if I am going to bother to run the site, I want it to work reliably. I know one or two of you know the 'back door' way into this site. So if you really do want to know the weather, you can get around 'this' particular problem by using the 'real' address of the weather station data which is based in the USA. But PLEASE continue to use www.thatcham-weather.info as this is the station URL and can point anywhere of my choosing, but for the time being at least, it points to http://weather.kennetsignalling.com/home.html, where all of the weather 'stuff' is hosted (yet another cost!). The Thatcham Weather address (URL) is just a pointer from the 'company' (or some might sayretards<vbg>) I pay to own the name. Only use the second URL in an emergency, else it will create many more problems than it solves, but at least those problems will be of your ownmaking<g>. And be aware, if I am moving companies, I will also be investigating the cost of the web hosting site (where the data currently resides), as the 'special offer' could well be expensive in November 2007. And the hosting site also had a spectacular screw-up of their own in 2006, but at least they learnt from it and have been 100% available since. It's not the first time this company has fallen over, but I do expect them to in the future. So I will not simply jump, but do a bit of homework as the grass isn't always greener etc... But rest assured, when I move, I'll get things running in parallel and post a warning message that the site will be down for a short period of time. I'll also try to do it overnight as less of you are trying to view, I'll even look at the historically quietest day of the week. The domain name registration company are www.123-reg.co.uk (I would suggest you try elsewhere, and there seems to be no relation between cost and 'goodness', so beware). Even now, 123-reg do not have a mention of this problem on their own webpages. Even more Fawlty Towers like, yesterday their own support page was missing because of this. It's so awful, you have to laugh :-) From the previous posting. |
| 10Nov07 12:00 |
A drought of news again. I put this down to working nights since July and my Open University course. Well at least the exam is over and there is a lull in studying until February. Over the previous 3 weeks, the weather station and camera software has been moved to a new Dell PC. This was partly due to the CPU intensive video processing, the need to have at least two PC's running 24 hours per day and the noise of more than a dozen fans and around ten hard drives spinning away. The new machine copes with everything, and is virtually silent. In fact it is quiet enough to be eery. And being politically correct, I'll probably cut my carbon footprint too! The new PC uses Vista Ultimate as the operating system. Although similar to XP Professional, it is different in so much as it does not like running software! To date, everything has been forced to work, but I'm dreading the next time the PC has to reboot. |
| 06Aug07 13:45 |
Unless you are colour blind, you may have noticed a difference. In the mean time, July 07 is the wettest month on record. It was also cooler than the 30 year average (global warming, everything is global warming. I almost feel like ranting, but if I do that the government will no doubt introduce a rant tax.) The floods on the 20th can be found via youtube etc. I feel sorry for bungalows very close by that still have all of their possessions stacked in the gardens. I also realise how lucky I am to be living on ever-so-slightly higher ground. I also realise the site partially stopped updating a week ago for just over 24 hours, nothing I could do as I was working away. |
| 26Jul07 00:30 |
I'm sorry the sky photo (and video) stopped updating yesterday. I was working away for 48 hours and noticed the problem, but was unable to correct it at the time. It was caused by a PC rebooting (it does this about once per month). Now back at home, I've just altered the machine so the required programs auto-load on a reboot. Fingers crossed, but a few tests I've performed were encouraging. |
| 20Jul07 17:00 |
Rain; although the road outside is now dry, roads within 1/4 mile are closed due to flooding. There are fire engines from neighbouring counties pumping water, roads and pavements lifted due to overloaded drains, shops closed due to flooding, mobile phone network overloaded or out of action, roads blocked by abandoned cars etc. The railway has been closed as the track is under water, the M4 motorway is at a stand due to a landslide. Since this station began recording in October 2002 it has been rare for 25mm (an inch) of rain fall in a day. In 2006 there were just two days with falls over 25mm; in 2007 there have been 4 days so far. The wettest day ever until today recorded 35.0mm which occurred in May of this year. But that rain fell over the whole 24 hours, which allowed it to drain away. Todays rain, not only being almost 3 times as much which is impressive itself, mostly fell in 3 hour period between 10:00 and 13:00 at an approximate rate of 25mm per hour. This has led to the problems mentioned above. |
| 20Jul07 12:00 |
Rain; Well the current storm has already beaten every precipitation record the station had! Well not just beaten it, but literally washed them away. And the rain is still falling very heavily. Wind speeds. I am aware the wind speed reports 125.7mph when thunderstorms are close by. These values are removed as soon as I spot them. |
| 19Jun07 12:25 |
| BT! Due to them migrating my webspace overnight without my knowledge, the sky image and video have stopped working. It should be operational soon. Two hours of my life I'll never get back. |
| 01Jun07 11:45 |
| The Video now appears to be working on its own. |
| 26May07 13:00 |
| A new camera has been installed. The image quality is very much improved, plus current weather details are included on the view. In place of the 'previous 8 hours of sky' webpage, there is a new 'video' page. This page has a time-lapse video with one image per minute. This is still under test, but should be working by the end of this month. |
| 21Jan07 15:30 |
The anemometer has been fitted to a new mast. At the same time, a brand new battery/solar panel/transmitter panel was fitted as the batteries were due for renewal, plus UV exposure has started to take its toll on the existing unit. Last year the highest recorded wind gust was 38mph, and so far this year there have been 3 days with wind gusts in excess of 50mph. |
| 19Jan07 06:45 |
(NEWS - It never rains, but it pours...) Yesterday's gale. Apart from breaking four to five panels out of the garden fence and doing some other damage, the mast holding the anemometer is bent over about 20 degrees and making strange groaning noises. Being bolted to the house, the whole building is echoing with the spooky noises. Fortunately the anemometer is still working, so something positive to be going on with! The 18th literally 'blew away' (no wonder the mast is groaning, it's not the wind, but statements like that) the station wind speed record with a gust of 58.61 mph (94.3km/h). I find it interesting that just last week (11th), the station recorded the highest wind speed
since Oct02 and a week later it is once again windy enough to take the absolute record. Another interesting fact for 2007 to date is no air frost (temp below 0'C) has been recorded since the 22nd December. Very unlike winter. 2006 Weather. Webcams. Rain gauge. And from previous news, Zara Miranda was born in Reading on 2nd September at 00:25. She is healthy and the most content, quietest baby I've ever known. [Not science: I've only really known two, but observed loads...] Her older sister Jasmine (3 years) has taken to her sister arriving in her world and loves her. The results for my physics course / summer school study were announced the week before Christmas and I did scarily well. This year I am about to start the Mathematic Methods and Modelling Course (MST209) and right now the results are predicted to be scarily bad in Dec07. The weather station, software, weather computer, web hosting, British Telecom and Southern Electric have been remarkably stable of late. There has been the odd hiccup, but nothing to write about which is just as well given how little time I've had to write. I'm intending to upload some Excel produced charts at some point. All the data above is already on the site, but charts put it into pictures. The rain fall chart will be the first. A couple of good websites to monitor weather in real time. I will add these to the 'forecast' page, although may have to change the menu as it is not a forecast... Time to think about the fence, the roof off of Jasmine's play barn that is in the field at the end of the garden and a new mast for the anemometer... |
| 16Aug06 07:00 |
A new problem! The weather PC locked up at 20:30 last night. Just spotted, reboot in progress... Webcam update. The new webcam failed to cope with daylight, so I am using a Philips one for now. Although this one tries too hard to compensate at night, which results in very large file sizes. The compromise is to stop night time images being uploaded. |
| 11Aug06 12:10 |
| I have just installed a new webcam for the sky images. It's a Creative Live! model. The old camera was on it's way out, but started to work after I gave it a thump yesterday. Hopefully the new images (no idea what they will be like) will cause you no problems, but if they do let me know. |
| 09Aug06 17:00 |
Well I'm sat here furiously typing away as I've got to get the summer school assessment (see previous news) sent in well before the deadline. Baby number 2 has entered the 'window', where it can arrive at any time. Just as my 2.5yr old is getting over chickenpox. Not exactly weather related is it? But a calm drive to the Royal Berks is awaiting.... To the 'pilots' out there who may have noticed the odd psychodelic skycam image over the last few days. This is due to the camera slowly dying. (And the better camera is off line due to BT Broadband and please don't ask about BT as I might scream!<g>) In the meantime, the Kite Festival is making a return to Henwick Worthy (it's opposite), Thatcham this coming weekend, so look out for them on the skycam. Beer and ice cream, mmmm. Let's hope the baby appears when I am ready :-) |
| 27Jul06 10:30 |
There was a power cut between 04:32 and 05:55, so the station is missing data. This also explains why the charts looks a bit 'funny' for today. BT is still dropping the connection. Sometimes it is up for days, then drops 20 times in half an hour which causes the various connections (6 of them) to the web to get confused and generally stop uploading. Fingers crossed the connection stays stable as the website will be running itself the whole of next week. Not a holiday, just a physics summer school in Durham. I'll monitor it from there and get the odd reboot done, but will only confuse those left at home if the whole site needs shutting down and restarting in order! Various records were broken during the heatwave this month. Of the 4 years of continuous data I have, it may surprise to you to know that in the year to date, 2006 is the wettest year on record! |
| 24Jun06 09:00 |
Although everything appears to be working as I type, I do realise there have been a few problems over the past month or so. All of the problems have been outside of my control, but to makes matters worse I've been working away from home during the week and therefore unable to correct any problem until the weekend(s). The hosting provider Ecenica seems to be behaving. Having had a very wet May (2nd wettest month since I started the station in 2002), June may well be the driest month in my records - Watch the Extreme page. So the hosepipe ban continues... |
| 14May06 09:00 |
| Hopefully you read the previous news entry while things went back to normal... www.123-reg.co.uk have screwed up again. I've sent e-mails to support, but as it is the weekend... It's not just this site that has a problem, I've 10 other domains registered with them that are also failing to forward to the website content. Other users will have similar problems. Not much else I can say or do. |
| 11May06 12:00 |
If you access via www.thatcham-weather.info you may not be able to find the weather due to 123-reg.co.uk screwing up. Therefore I apologise for any inconvenience caused, blah de blah :-) |
| 10May06 19:30 |
| Just before midday, the site seemed to be unavailable for an hour or so. This was due to www.123-reg.co.uk doing some in-house upgrades without telling their customers. Sorry about that. And this evening, the second thunderstorm in 48 hours. Some interesting stuff to write to COL at the end of May for my monthly report. During the storm 2 days ago I only heard one clap of thunder at precisely 07:08, but it burnt down a house less than a mile away! |
| 07May06 17:15 |
| WAP/WML/Mobile Phones |
I realise a lot of visitors use this site to plan weather related activities. As your fun tends to take place away from a PC, you might want to be able to access current weather during the day. Therefore I've created a simple webpage for you. |
| 29Apr06 16:30 |
On Wednesday (26th) there were a couple of power cuts that stopped the data recording/transmitting from 08:10 until 11:00. As I was working 200 miles north, I managed to get the PC's rebooted remotely, but it meant only the small skycam was working for the past few days. All sorted now I am back at home. 10Apr 00:35-06:55, BT Broadband failed which stopped data reaching the website. All data recorded locally though. |
| 26Mar06 16:45 |
Software upgraded to v12.08p4. Although I hate upgrading the software as the faults it has allegedly fixed usually rarely affect me, the bugs introduced may well do so. But I upgraded earlier today as this morning and once more this year I've had the software crash [Has to be something to do with an upgrade I didn't need]. (For the record, it was due to ntdll.dll) |
| 12Mar06 08:45 |
| There was a power cut around 04:35 today, and therefore a brief loss of data. |
| 10Mar06 03:00 |
The station has signed up with Citizen Weather Observer Programme (CWOP). More details to follow |
| 03Mar06 12:00 |
I was either brave, silly or drunk when I upgraded the weather station software today. This was allow the station to participate in Weather Underground's 'Rapid Fire' test. Data is now sent every few seconds, so the weather appears 'live'. Rapid Fire is still in development, but you can see it in action here (One week on and the software upgrade appears to be without problem, but I'm still wary.) |
| 24Feb06 16:45 |
| Anemometer froze solid overnight. It started to spin freely once sun had played on it for an hour. This has never occured previously to my knowledge, so I will not attempt to fix it. Yesterday the grass temperature locked up at 2.2'C for around 24 hours - batteries changed and thermometer reset. |
| 18Feb06 10:00 |
| I've spent some time trying to align tables and text for Firefox users. If you notice anything out of place, please tell me what browser you are using and the problem so I can fix it. I'm still struggling with centering the menu in Firefox. |
| 06Feb06 11:30 |
| The station is now signed up at www.weatherstationfinder.com of Tamworth |
| 03Feb06 01:15 |
| Yesterday was the first Ice Day on record. OK the current weather is seemingly bland, just grey and cold, at the same time it is the first day that the air temperature has not risen above freezing point at all. |
| 01Feb06 02:30 |
The website, weather station and weather PC has generally been behaving themselves, so I've had no need to write any news. BT Broadband failed on the 30th January between 03:40 and 10:30. This stopped the site updating. The web hosting company (Ecencia) had a rather large server failure on the 17th January from 18:20 until 19:50, but couldn't say what had caused it, but were proud to admit they had two 'senior' engineers on site looking at the problem that couldn't be found. This caused the website to disappear during that period. I've replaced the hopeless max/min thermometer from the UK Weathershop with a cheap max/min from the local garden centre. This one works, although under-reads slightly. But knowing how far out it is means it is still useful as a manual backup instrument. The Stevensons screen is working very well. January's weather was different. Since the station has been operating, the mean temperature was the coolest on record, the mean barometer the highest on record with the highest January maximum. Winds have been the calmest, including the lowest January maximum with the dominant wind direction being the NE. (It is usually WSW.) It's also been the driest January. (All of this is interesting in a Steve Davis kind of way.) |
| 01Jan06 14:00 |
Happy New Year The outdoor thermometer/ humidity sensor is now housed in a Stevensons screen. This was constructed from a kit I purchased from the UK Weathershop. Very fiddly to glue and paint, but the end result looks good. The thermometer and transmitter unit has also been replaced with the brand new spare I already had. In the same screen is an additional pair of thermometers. A traditional max/min to back up the electronic version, although as I type the max and min indicators follow the mercury column which is of course useless! The other thermometer has a 3m long lead with a sensor at the end. This has been placed at grass height and will be used to record minimum grass temperatures. |
| 23Dec05 13:15 |
I've just added a webcam animation to the webcam menu. It's still be tested. |
| 20Dec05 11:00 |
| I've noticed a lot of corrupt web pages. I'm trying to fix them right now. Ooops! On a positive note, the hosting has been stable since the big hiccup at their end. |
| 14Dec05 15:40 |
| Tech Support gave answers to completely different questions. I've asked them to clarify as by 09:00 the new site came back to life all by itself. So I have just done a lot of editing to point everything at the new host. Fingers crossed. |
| 14Dec05 07:30 |
| Between 23:30 and 07:30 (UTC), the website was missing. This is because the domain name of the hosting site vanished from the internet! The hosting company has been contacted by e-mail. In the meantime I've tried to get the old site running as it will be better than 'page not found' |
| 13Dec05 11:50 |
| If you are reading this, the new website is up and running. |
| 13Dec05 03:10 |
| The new website is in its final stages of testing. |
| 10Dec05 22:00 |
A brand new website is being created in the background with over half of it already successfully working. The new site has no frames, which will enable all users (you) to see more of the site without too much scrolling. The web pages are also smaller in size, so should download faster. Colours are also reversed as the blue is easier on the eyes. If you notice any strange pages on the web site over the next week, please be aware I'll be in the background going bananas. HTML/CSS/Javascript, all new to me, but all in the new site. I'll be sat here altering the webpages that update every 10 minutes, then checking, testing, recording results, without breaking the exisiting site (too much). Hopefully it with be worth it for both me and the many users out there that visit and I've no idea who you are. Well apart from knowing the URL of say Freemans Catalogues visits quite often. Hello. At the same time, I recorded 1041mb today which is the joint highest record and suspect it may break this stations record by Monday night. Another record was broken yesterday - Wind Run. |
| 08Dec05 04:00 |
| It's just 6 days from the wettest day/24hr period since the station began recording, along with the lowest barometric pressure this year.
During the last week I've purchased some more webspace. This means the entire website will slowly migrate to a new home, in fact the driveway webcam had already moved (a test), and seamlessly I might add (but if you believe otherwise, please let me know). During November I joined the Climatological Observers Link (COL). Each month my data will be analysed and sent to the group to be published. |
| 29Nov05 |
| I've spent a few too many hours checking the validity of every page. There were many small errors corrected, but I am now allowed to display the following symbol on every page, although for my own sanity will choose this one place only. |
| 11Nov05 13:30 |
| During the previous 2 to 3 hours, BT Broadband has failed. (It has just come back to life, so I'll post this quickly!) BT admit the problem seems to be 'their end', so it's either been fixed or still intermittent. This is out of my control, but I'll apologise anyway... |
| 09Nov05 15:10 |
| You may have already noticed graphics or pages apparently missing over the past few hours, my apologies. It's because the website is being reorganised in the background. Everything was in one directory and it was getting difficult to see the wood from the trees. Please 'refresh' the page you are looking at, including the menu. (Right click and select refresh on the menu to sort out 99% of problems.) I've modified the rain gauge so it now records in 0.5mm increments compared to the OS design of 1.0mm. This appears to be successful comparing readings to two manual gauges in the garden. (Currently it is calibrated to 0.48mm per tip of the bucket.) The weather station has also been behaving itself. I've even reinstalled the operating system and software on the dedicated weather PC. |
| 15Oct05 11:15 |
| A new anemometer has been installed as it failed yet again. I found hitting the bottom if the mounting pole with a broom was enough to get it working. So this morning, the brand new anemometer and cabling have been fitted to the existing solar/transmitter unit. If it fails again, it's certainly the transmitter at fault. I'll repair the failed one for use as a working spare. |
| 14Oct05 09:10 |
| The new base station has been installed. It's an updated model - WMR928NX. All sensors remain unaltered, although I've a complete set of spares. The databases should be updated within the hour. Normal service has resumed. |
| 13Oct05 10:45 |
| Mmmm! Everything was working perfectly, then... A brand new weather station has just been ordered from Skyview as the main 928 unit has decided to start failing. You may have noticed the barometer dropped by 10 hPa at midnight. This will report incorrectly until the new base station is installed on the 14th. At least I'll have a 'big' box of spares! |
| 12Oct05 17:55 |
| OK, it could be just coincidence that since I started the 'News' page, the anemometer has decided to celebrate by failing. The wind speed flat-lined again for up to an hour, so out on the roof, luckily it was daylight with no rain and little wind. All I've done is lower the mast 4 feet and speed is reporting. Winds from the south may get affected by the roof line, but I can live with that while I see if the radio connection settles down. |
| 12Oct05 16:00 |
| Airport page updated to now show a series of surrounding airports that are open 24 hours per day. |
| 12Oct05 08:10 |
| Wind speed at zero from around 04:30. Had to wait until daylight to attempt a fix. AA batteries replaced. Noticed rechargeable battery connector was corroding. Battery pack cleaned, but swapped with the outdoor temperature pack as this is easier to get to. Also new AA's fitted. |
| Note: The wind speed can read zero! If it does, the direction will remain constant with both traces flat. If wind direction is apparently changing, but speed is zero, there is something wrong. |
| 06Oct05 11:10 |
| Wind speed has been reading zero since approximately 01:00 Currently air is calm, but anemometer has but spun manually and registers, so awaiting wind to test. (Update, had to go out on roof and 'fiddle'.) |
| 01Oct05 |
This is currently a test page where 'news/updates' will be added as required. So the first news is this new page! I would also like to thank Ryan Trendell of Oregon Scientific UK that helped me out in June with a new rain gauge to replace one the squirrels had eaten. I have also been 'brave' and updated from VWS software from v12.07p25 to p52. (If it ain't broke etc.) |
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05-Jan-2010
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