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Ed
Project History:
This is a project I've wanted to do for quite some time and in January 2007 the idea started to become reality.
Project updates:
December 2011- completed the switchover from the Honeywell Weather Stationn to 1-wire. This means replacing the barometer, indoor temp/humidity, outdoor temp/humidity, adding soil temp instruments, a controller hub and an additional data line. UV monitoring should be in place during the next few days. This move was due to after almost 5 years the originial instruments were becoming too hard to maintain.
November 2009, added live lightning capability with Boltek detection and NexStorm Software
September 2009, added WXSIM to provide local forecasting abilities and a computer dedicated to forecasting and future projects.
January 2009, replaced Honeywell anemometer with a 1- wire equivalent and added nightime cloud monitor.
October 2008, added enhanced radar capabilities using GRLevel3 software
July 2008, changed solar detection to a "solar in a jar" system.
June 2008, added soil temperature detectors at depths of 1, 2, 3 feet; this was done to study how
soil temperature changes as depth increases and as the seasons change -- this didn't work out well with the Honeywell system. There was a software conflict I couldn't fix
January 2008 - Celebrated our first year of operation
After the ice storm added a very large UPS that will hopefully allow me to safely shutdown the computers in case of long term power failure
December 2007 -- Added dedicated local server to process weather instrumentation
May 24, 2007 - Domain changed to www.eds-weather.info
May 12, 2007 - Leaf Wetness detector added.
April 21, 2007 - Solar radiation detector beta/calibration testing.
April 7, 2007 - Replaced defective wind instruments. The original one would "fail high" under low wind conditions causing 60 + mph spikes on the graphs.
March 2007 - Added a 1wire network lightning detector.
February 2007 - Updated web site adding NOAA 7 day forecasts, watches, and warnings. Also, converted most pages to php for cross-browser compatibility.
Mid-January 2007 - Put first web page up
Early January 2007 - Installed weather station hardware in the middle of an ice storm with the help of Curtis.
Future Plans:
I plan to add the following instruments and improvements to the station:
Developing a "mobile friendly site"
Soil moisture detection
Project Hardware:
My original hardware consists of the following equipment:
Honeywell TE923W - "Professional Weather Station" (their descriptor) which includes:
Indoor Temperature
Barometric Pressure
Indoor Humidity
Rain (measured in .01 inch increments)
Wind speed
Wind direction
UV
Additionally I have added the following 1-Wire network devices purchased through Hobby Boards:
Leaf Wetness Detector
Lightning Detector
Solar Radiation Detector
Misc. interface devices
Soil and Grass Temperature Detector
As noted above, the station has been swapped over to 1-Wire instrumentation.
The PC that runs the station is dedicated solely to that purpose.
Tom at carterlake.org
Tom provided the original php scripts that provide the NWS forecasts and advisories. The scripts have been modified from the originals but none
of this would have been possible without his contribution.
