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"
.
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.
