About This Station
The station is powered by a RS 63-256 weather station (rebranded OS WMR100). I DO NOT recommend anyone purchase the RS 63-256 or WMR 100. This one will be replaced as soon as I can afford it. The data is collected every 10 seconds by computer software (Virtual Weather Station [I DO NOT recommend this software unless you are willing to pay the unreasonable annual cost of a higher level license]). The site is updated every 5 minutes. WUHU software collects the data and developes these web pages. WUHU software also disseminates data from the weather station to 7 major weather monitoring networks. The station comprises of an anemometer, rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated in optimal positions for highest accuracy possible.
W9SBU (Charles Clark) is a ham radio operator and member of Waupaca County ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) providing emergency communications support to the county Emergency Management and supplemental communications support to local public events (Iola Old Car Show, Waupaca Area Triathlon, ...). 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. Through his ARES affiliation, W9SBU also provides storm spotting and communications support to other counties.
Daily minimum and maximum values of Temperature and Precipitation are 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, snowfall and ground frost depth 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 provided by myself and many other volunteers is available as
a "
Rainfall Collective" through the NWS web site. Scroll down to Waupaca - WYGW3
Additionally, current data from my weather station is automatically sent between every 15 seconds and every 10 minutes to seven
other major weather networks on the Internet:
CoCoRaHS Network, PWS weather,
AWEKAS (Europe),
Weather Underground,
,
WeatherBug, HAMWeather, and
Weather For You.
About This City
Weyauwega was founded in 1848 when men traveled from the east to west via waterways seeking a place where they hoped to build a better life for themselves and their families.
What? How do you say it? How do you spell it? Where did a name like that ever come from? Was it named after a Menominee chief or patriarch named Wey-au-we-ga? Weyauwega, Wisconsin is pronounced Y-O-Wega. Did the name originate from the Indians and means “Here We Rest” or “Today”? Is it a corruption of the word “Wey-au-we-ya” signifying whirling wind? Or perhaps it was named after a Menominee guide who worked for Governor James Doty?
Whatever the origin or meaning of this city, it, like many communities in Wisconsin, is steeped in Native American Heritage. Heritage, history, community pride are emotions felt by those who currently or once lived in Weyauwega. It doesn’t take people long to fall in love with this community of friendly people – whether visiting, working or living here.
Find out much more about Wega at the Weyauwega Chamber of Commerce
About This Website
This website is a public service provided by W9SBU - Charles Clark. It is intended for reference and education only - Critical weather based decisions should not be made based on only this information.
This site is pruduced by a template provided by LissProductions.com and modified to work with WUHU by John Liss. The templates were modified by W9SBU to develop this specific web site.
The template is originally based on CarterLake.org a template which came from Designs by Haran.
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