Spring has sprung
You know spring has sprung when you plant peas and clean out eavestroughs… well at least the planting peas part. Seeds from 2013, 2015 and 2017? or 2018? were planted…
Snowbound
What do we do when stuck inside for the winter? Revisit some classic video. We started with the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy, which took a little over…
weather down.. and up!
The Davis Vantage Vue weather station dropped off the air one night, but we didn’t notice until a day or two later. The thing is, it came back up in…
Frost summary 2003-2018 At SCGO
StarlightCascade Gardens & Observatory Weather Station Yarker Ontario Canada LIGHT FROST (-1C) HEAVY FROST (-3C) Year #days #weeks Year #days #weeks 2003 Apr30-Oct23 176 25 2003 Apr24-Nov08 198 28 2004…
Radiojove vs lightning
This is the affect of the thunderstorm/lightning storm that rolled through our area last night… less than an hour overhead directly, but the Radiojove radio telescope system was picking up…
High winds, roof flies, RIP SCGO
Yesterday, Wednesday 2018 April 4th, Eastern Ontario had a wind storm. It’s not the first we have had. Back in 2003? we had the remnants of a hurricane roll over…
Got Frost?
We’ve been running data logging weather stations since 2002 and once in a while get the urge to analyze some of that data. One of the results is attached below……
Middle of May
Here we are in the middle of May already. The Black Flies, here for two weeks now, continue to inhibit all outdoor activity. Event with bug hats, jackets and gloves,…
cool spring
This is a southbound view of Highway #38 near Murvale, with the flood waters receded back from the eastern lane. Yesterday it covered the eastern lane and the western lane…
Possible ice/frost quake
On a side note, it hit -27C at about 01:30 this morning… and the house did make some cracking noises. More interestingly, an apparent frost quake or icequake hit the…
next raspberry pi project
Now that the 1st Raspberry Pi Project has been up and running for a good and solid two months with the Starlight Cascade Gardens and Observatories Weather Station, it is…
Frost data 2016
We’ve been running a weather station here since 2003 and as a result, have local data for temperatures. This has been especially important as our vegetable and flower gardens really…
Greenhouse leakage
The new poly roof went up on the greenhouse 12 months ago, and has had since day one, a water leak whenever the wind is blowing while raining. That happens…
WeatherPi issues
The Raspberry Pi called Weatherpi, has been out of action the last few days. Turned out there were some power issues and in some fashion the database was corrupted with…
Raspberry Pi rules!
Yay! Success! After a year.. or two.. the time and pi and motivation all came together in the space of under an hour last night. Since 2002 we have had…