How Does Weather Station Work?
Still under constuction
Will complete as time permits
The outdoor sensing instruments are mounted on the roof of a
woolshed in Gladstone Rd. There are three outdoor sensors, all shown above, a
temperature/humidity sensor, a wind vane/anenometer and a rain gauge which has
been modified to record in
0.1mm steps instead of the more usual 1.00mm steps.
The data from these sensors is transmitted down special cables to a console
unit[also shown above]
mounted inside the woolshed. The console unit also senses indoor
temperature/humidity and
barometric pressure. All the data generated is sent every minute via a
serial cable to a computer[which is turned on all the time] where a
special weather software program
called
Weather Display
generates the web pages which you see. Every 15 minutes,
24 hours every day fresh data is uploaded to
the website
via a modem.
The whole process is automated except for continuing upgrades to the program
which happen two or three times a month.
Data is sent over the internet to
Weather Wunderground,
Hamweather.
and
APRS
all these sites are based in the USA and we are all part of the
worldwide research by
NOAA
in the USA in trying to determine what drives
the whole world's weather.
BACK