About This Station
This is a private weather station on a rural residential subdivision about 6 kilometres west of Picton, NSW, Australia. The station is south of Barkers Lodge Road between Picton and Mowbray Park. It is shown at Weather Underground by a coloured disc at the centre of the "Interactive Radar and Weather Stations" map (sorry, it can be slow to load, but worth it if you're patient). The disc shows the current temperature, wind direction and speed -- see the legend at the right hand side. By changing the zoom on this map, you can find the location of this weather station in a regional and local context, and many other weather stations that feed information into Weather Underground. Picton is about 80 km southwest of Sydney, between Sydney and Canberra. Additional information on our estate and the Picton district is at the Nangarin website.
- This weather station is on a footslope with a northerly aspect. It is well protected and several large ironbarks are nearby - see top photo. Some of their drip lines are in the range of only 5 to 20 metres from the weather station instruments and must affect the accuracy of the data. Temperatures, especially winter minimums, are usually less extreme here than in Picton or, even, some other parts of the local estate. Further, wind direction is less intense and far more variable.
- The rain gauge is a 1 ml tipping bucket system that sits on top of a Stephenson Screen made from inverted, hollowed out, plastic pot bases - see photo below. It is possible for a bucket to be 99% full at the end of a rainfall event - not quite enough to tip and record the next 1 mm of rain. Hours later, though, wind can shake it and cause it to tip, recording 1 mm in the system.
Any changes to the station setup or operation will be notified here.
About This Website
This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org. The template is originally based on Designs by Haran. It is XHTML 1.0 compliant. Validate the XHTML and CSS of this page.
Special thanks go to:
- Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates and his design for the common website PHP management
- Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates
- Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design
- James Passfield, high school student, for setting up the site to the owner's specifications.