{"id":762,"date":"2009-12-29T06:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2010-01-11T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:14:39","slug":"too-cold-for-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/too-cold-for-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"too cold for wind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of wind blow through last night&#8230; yet the weather station reports everything as calm calm calm.<br \/>\n#*&#038;(@(&#038; wind speed sensor is iced up again.  Such is life.  It did go from above 0 to -20 or so overnight as well.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/wmr968kit.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"wmr968kit\" width=\"276\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-763\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Updated: 2010 Jan 11:<br \/>\nTurns out I broke one of the three arms of the wind speed sensor when attempting to deice and dislodge it.<br \/>\nThe replacement part is about $150  so instead we will try some epoxy and  shrinkwrap tubing.<br \/>\nMaybe putting the wind sensor wayyyy up the clothesline pole was not such a smart thing to do after all..<br \/>\nNow I have to dig a trench through the snow and put up the step ladder to access it and then attempt the repair whilst balancing 2metres  in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to start thinking about a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stevenson_screen\">Stephenson screen<\/a> for the temperature sensor and add on the wind and rain sensors to it as well.  From the article linked above:<\/p>\n<p>The traditional Stevenson Screen is a box shape, constructed of wood, in a double-louvered design. However, it is possible to construct a screen using other materials and shapes, such as a triangle. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) agreed standard for the height of the thermometers is between 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) above the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.. good to know!  Time to move it down from the post&#8230; it is about 4m off the ground at the moment.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/452px-Stevenson_screen_exterior.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"452px-Stevenson_screen_exterior\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-775\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of wind blow through last night&#8230; yet the weather station reports everything as calm calm calm. #*&#038;(@(&#038; wind speed sensor is iced up again. Such is life. It did go from above 0 to -20 or so overnight as well. Updated: 2010 Jan 11: Turns out I broke one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}