Weather Station Nagu’s wind gauge has changed. Now the 10 minute average wind and gusts are shown in one gauge, gusts being in parentheses.
Tekijä: Ari Rosti
Very Local Rainstorm
On Wednesday, July 19, 2023 WS Nagu witnessed a very local rainstorm. While writing this, it has been raining about an hour, with peak rate almost 100 mm/hour. Total rain will exceed 23 mm.
Station’s Data Update Schema
There was an outage that was due to a MicroSD card failure of one of the Weewx servers collecting and sending weather observation data to station’s web server. Actually, there has been three Raspberry Pi computers involved in the process, two running Weewx and one Home Assistant. While fixing this, Station Master decided to simplify...
Links Checked
Station Master checked all links on Links page, fixed not working ones and removed obsolete links.
Failure of Solar Radiation & UV Index
Today there was a few hours update failure of Solar Radiation and UV Index. They were not updated between 10.30 and 15. Issue was with weewx on Raspberry Pi.
News from WS Nagu
New Davis Vantage Pro 2 equipment has been operational since April 6, 2023. Especially rain and wind measurement are now more accurate. Regarding rain measurement, Tempest is not able to detect snowfall, and measurements were completely erratic during January-March this year. It turned out that main reason for this was bird repellent spike collar that...
Weather Station Hardware Upgrade
Weather Station Nagu started summer 2003 when Station Master decided to combine weather observation and computer software related hobbies and create a local weather station publicly available on Internet. The original equipment was based on Davis Vantage Pro hardware. That equipment lasted over 15 years with quite a minimal maintenance, and parts of it are...
Rain Measurement Offline
Rain measurement is offline until Station Master gets a more reliable rain gauge than the current one is.
Solar Power Plant Installed
Weather Station Nagu’s house has now a solar power plant installed, with peak power 4,92 kWp. Station Master’s plan is to add current power production gauge and chart to weather station, as soon as integration issues are solved. Below a chart of solar power today by 14 o’ clock.
Blitzortung.org – real time lightning maps
There is a great site showing real time maps of lightnings, Blitzortung.org. A map showing Weather Station Nagu’s surroundings is now embedded as page Blitzortung.org – real time lightnings on the website. On Blitzortung.org, it is even possible to check lightnings of a specific date and time, and even play a loop of 1 hours...