About This Station
This is a private weather station on a rural residential subdivision about 5 km west of Picton, NSW, Australia. Picton is about 80 km southwest of Sydney, between Sydney and Canberra. Additional information on our estate and the Picton district is at www.nangarin.com.
- 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 these are about only 10 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.
The data is collected from an Oregon Scientific WMR 200 wireless weather station connected to a laptop computer running Windows XP and Weather Display, Weather Display Live and MesoMap Live software. It is updated on the laptop every minute; some data is uploaded to the website every 20 seconds while other data is uploaded every 15 minutes. The station is comprised of a wind vane, anemometer, rain gauge, UV sensor and temperature/humidity sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible (see below). Users might need to refresh their browser if the website is left open for more than 15 minutes.
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.
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.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
The site runs on Weather Display and Weather Display Live software to be found at http://www.weather-display.com/index.php and http://www.weather-display.com/wdlive.php, respectively.
Template is originally based on Designs by Haran.
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