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This page is provided as a public service by W9SBU, Weyauwega, WI

W9SBU (Charles Clark) is a ham radio operator and member of Waupaca County ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) providing emergency and supplemental communications support. W9SBU is a trained SkyWarn storm spotter and provides severe weather live reporting to the National Weather Service, Green Bay through radio communications. Most often, radio communications are relayed through ARES SkyWarn nets.

OFL = Out of Functional Limits
The most common time you will see OFL is when the wind chill is below -21.8 F
The weather station has limits to it's capabilities. This unit can read temps between -21.8 and +157.8 F. Rain volume up to 39.37 inches, and wind speed up to 111.8 mph. Anything exceeding those limits will be listed as OFL. Although wind chill is a calculated value and not measured, the unit understands that it's functional limit is -21.8 and will not try to report anything below that considering it will not be accurate.

Daily minimum and maximum values of Temperature and Precipitation are also provided to the National Weather Service each morning. The computer records and identifies the min/max of all data and each morning, I log in as WYGW3 and submit data related to temperature, rainfall and snowfall for the past 24 hours. During the winter, snow core samples are taken weekly and right after a storm and analyzed for total moisture content.
This assists NWS in predicting drought regions, water table levels and risk of spring flooding.
This information provide by myself and many other volunteers is available as a "Rainfall Collective" through the NWS web site. Scroll down to Waupaca - WYGW3
The same information is provided to the CoCoRaHS Network. My CoCoRaHS Data select Wisconsin and Waupaca under location. Click the icon under "view" for WI-WP-1.

24 hour maximums/minimums @ 8:20am 7/5:
79.1º at 1:49pm 7/4, 53.7º at 6:07am 7/5, wind gust of 11.1 mph at 4:56pm 7/4.
Total rain for May: 2.47"
Total rain for June: 6.08"
Total rain for July: 0.36"
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How it works:

WS-2310 weather station takes readings every 8 seconds.

Data from the weather station is fed to a computer through Com1 and stored in 175 sets of readings through data acquisition software.

Data from the weather station is acquired by computer software (Heavy Weather) through com port 1 and displayed as shown at left. This provides all data in one screen rather than having to change between screens on the weather console.

 

Another software program (WUHU) gets data feeds from the above program and uploads the data every 5 minutes to several databases on the Internet. The above data at the top right of this page is called from two of those databases- AWEKAS (Automatic Weather Map System) & HAMweather.

Data is sent to:
Citizen Weather Observer Program
Automatic Weather Map System
HAMWeather
Weather Underground