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Partial data functionality has been restored.
The hourly weather and nightly hourly allsky1 image should now be working.
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We have switch hosting providers and the daily updates that normally automatically occur have been suspended until we get things configured again.
So items like weather, allsky1 and allsky2, etc will not be updated past 2025oct08, at least for a little while.
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Just a *small* representation of the huge harvest from our 32 heirloom tomato plants this year. Think in your mind, *triple* at least this amount.
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A very long night and into the morning for the last Titan shadow transit of Saturn for another 13+? years.
It worked! We Got One!
The transparency was poor with the almost full moon within a few degrees of Saturn. Seeing however, started out as average and then went to poor.
I had not known that Titan was already in transit.. good thing I started a little early and captured that as well.
This image shows Titan only, as it was taken at 04:17 UTC, before the shadow transit started. The colour balance was wayyy off.. I blame the Moon.
This one shows both the shadow transit (top) and the moon Titan, at 05:05 UTC, the best before the seeing went really bad.
This is an animated GIF (about 2MB) of all 28 runs, really showing the DETERIORATING seeing.
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A really really nice fireball overnight. attached is the nightly summary image, the event image and if not too big, the 8 second video
20250910 04:31:30 UTC = 00:31:30 EDT
Nightly Summary:
Event itself:
8 second video:
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Its BLT season!
Sep06
The first Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich of the season… and the first of about 20… take advantage of it while you can!
This was a Kellogg’s Breakfast heirloom tomato sliced very thick.
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We noted over the last year that a portion of the popup trailer floor was soft. So we opened it up to discover that instead of plywood, orient strand board (OSB) was used to patch that portion of the floor and it had gotten wet over time.
That led us to removing the OSB, replacing with plywood and also getting all new vinyl flooring. That took awhile but we think it is ready to roll forfall camping!
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Sheds with a metal roof tend to be cooler than one with shingles.. but still sometimes too warm. So we added two 4″ fans powered by a small 30w solar panel on the roof.
The fans had metal grills and we added nylon insect netting to keep all sized of critters out.
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These are the summary images from the UWO/SCGO Allsky2 fireball camera from the nights of 2025 Aug 11/12, 1213 and 13/14. Even with the large moon through most of the night we see:
20250812: 42
20250813: 23
20250814: 29
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This is a 9 image animated .GIF from the SCGO Allsky1 camera system of the Ariane6 rocket fuel dump that many saw Tuesday evening from 22:32-22:38 EDT in the East and Northeast.
The images were reduced down to 1024×1024 before animating. Fuel dumps are always an interesting sight in the night sky.
You can see other images and videos at
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/video/SNCR4Kov
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Has it been hot?
Aug11
on August 11, 2025
at 08:37
and modified on August 11, 2025. at 08:39
Posted In: life the universe and everything, weather
From our weather station stats.
This is the 6th heat wave (our definition of more than one day at 30C or above), this summer and the current one will be continuing for another two days.
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for Aug 2025
NAME: SCGO-yarker-ontario-canada
ELEV: 150 meters LAT: 44-22.20 N LONG: 076-46.80 W
TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (cm), WIND SPEED (km/h)
HEAT COOL AVG
MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM
DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR
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01 16.5 26.5 18:03 6.5 05:41 1.8 0.0 0.00 3.0 18.4 11:37 25
02 18.4 29.7 16:00 4.4 05:55 0.0 0.1 0.00 2.8 20.0 17:16 228
03 20.2 29.8 14:51 9.9 05:32 0.0 1.8 0.00 2.5 15.9 12:57 221
04 20.4 31.1 15:22 9.8 05:51 0.0 2.1 0.10 1.6 13.4 18:55 32
05 20.7 29.6 15:51 12.6 05:05 0.0 2.3 0.00 3.5 17.6 15:20 36
06 21.9 31.9 15:17 11.6 03:10 0.0 3.6 0.00 2.6 19.2 15:01 37
07 22.7 30.2 13:37 15.3 04:13 0.0 4.4 0.00 2.2 14.2 15:23 206
08 23.4 31.0 13:49 16.0 23:56 0.0 5.0 0.00 2.9 18.4 15:33 205
09 24.1 33.0 18:11 15.5 01:45 0.0 5.8 0.00 3.0 19.2 15:26 205
10 25.6 34.0 15:06 16.7 05:56 0.0 7.3 0.00 2.7 20.0 14:49 201
The last significant rain was 30 days ago and it was 9mm.
Everything is hot and dry. Total fire bans have been in place for a week now and will continue most likely for the remainder of the month.
In comparison to last august to date
MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for Aug 2024
NAME: SCGO-yarker-ontario-canada
ELEV: 150 meters LAT: 44-22.20 N LONG: 076-46.80 W
TEMPERATURE (C), RAIN (cm), WIND SPEED (km/h)
HEAT COOL AVG
MEAN DEG DEG WIND DOM
DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS DAYS RAIN SPEED HIGH TIME DIR
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01 24.9 32.7 14:04 17.3 05:25 0.0 6.6 0.00 1.7 13.4 14:54 235
02 24.3 30.3 13:30 17.7 05:55 0.0 6.0 0.00 0.8 9.3 11:31 221
03 24.7 30.2 11:08 20.0 23:28 0.0 6.3 0.00 3.0 15.1 13:49 218
04 25.8 32.5 15:22 18.0 06:15 0.0 7.4 0.00 2.8 19.2 18:47 251
05 19.9 25.6 18:08 16.3 23:59 0.0 1.6 0.61 2.5 17.6 19:22 11
06 17.8 22.8 12:49 10.7 23:50 0.5 0.0 0.00 4.1 15.1 08:08 33
07 17.4 26.1 16:20 8.1 04:14 1.0 0.0 0.00 3.2 16.7 11:38 34
08 17.8 25.1 11:15 9.5 04:10 0.5 0.0 0.03 3.6 18.4 11:17 179
09 21.5 25.6 18:45 17.3 23:57 0.0 3.1 3.89 3.6 15.1 00:26 217
10 19.5 25.9 13:34 12.2 06:26 0.0 1.1 0.00 5.4 27.5 18:01 228
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