Tekijä: Ari Rosti

WS Nagu’s current equipment, WeatherFlow Tempest is installed on top of a mast on Station Master’s house’s rooftop. This should be an ideal placement to measure wind. But a downsize has been that the haptic rain sensor has not worked reliably, due to vibrations of the mast. So far, rain measurement has been taken from...

WeatherFlow Tempest has a lightning detector. Since station arrived, Station Master has not been able to check whether the detector actually works. But today, there was a thunderstorm in Turku at the time Station master was there, too. Quick check showed that the lightnings were detected in Nauvo. Some settings regarding lightning reporting were off,...

Nagu Yacht Club’s webcam is back online. Hooray! https://rosti.fi/saa/nssn-kamera/?lang=en

It certainly looks summer began two weeks earlier than last year. Forecasts suggest mean temperatures stay above 10 °C at least in the near future.

Weather Station Nagu currently relies on three different set of sensors: Weatherflow Tempest, Davis Vantage Pro and Ruuvitag. A while ago, Tempest’s humidity and rain sensors stopped working, but luckily this did not cause any issues, because those measurements shown on WS page are not from Tempest. However, faulty Tempest will be replaced with a...

Outage on April 21, 2021 is due to electric company’s maintenance work causing electricity service cut taking more than three hours.

Weather Station Nagu is again reporting all measurements, after Vantage rain collector was connected online again just after midnight.

After troubleshooting the outage, the initial reason turned out to be the Tempest sensor unit being stopped working. Switching it off and on did the trick. In the mean time, Station Master had done some reconfiguration to weewx server, and due to that, rain measurement from old Davis instrument is not currently working. Since Tempest’s...

The reason for outage has been clarified: the Tempest went offline just before noon today. To troubleshoot it, Station Master must climb to roof and try to reset it. This will be done on Sunday.

There is an outage due to problems with station’s weewx server. Station master is examining the issue.