Weather Underground station ID: IOntario51
Clear Outside Astronomical Cloud Forecast
We have been running an internet capable weather station since 2002. The actual hardware has changed over the years.
Acurite Pro (model 06004) (2019 November 27-present )
Davis Vantage Vue (2013 Jan-2019 April)
Oregon WMR968 (2007 Jan - 2012 Dec)
Radioshack WX200 (2002 July - 2006 Dec)
The current (2019Nov27) weather station is sited well away from the house and other structures, actually in a vegetable garden, about 2m above the ground.
The current data logger is a Raspberry Pi model 3B(1GB RAM, x4USB2, quad core 1200MHz, hdmi, 802.11n wifi ), utilizing very low power (<5 watts) and is amazingly stable, at one point in time running for 367 days steady!
The new Weewx v4.5.1 software is the data logger and it also
automatically uploaded to the data repositories :
Weather Underground, the Personal Weather Stations (PWS) site
and to this website as well.
Other sources of weather for our area:
(Clear Sky Clock for Starlight Cascade) and
Clear Outside
Environment Canada:
Kingston Forecast
The Weather Network:
Kingston Forecast *
Yarker Forecast *
Canada Hurricane Centre
*
Great Lakes
*
SOHO Solar Image
*
Eastern
Ontario Road Conditions -
Aurora forecast:
Other Local Weather Stations
IONTARIO51 Yarker Ontario Canada
Acurite Pro with Weewx v4.5.1 on a Raspberry Pi3b - East of Yarker
IONTARIO1065 Varty Lake/Desmond Stone Mills Ontario Canada
Hardware:AcuRite Pro Weather Center
Software:myAcuRite - west of Varty Lake
XGY Grimsby Mountain, ON
weatherunderground-Browse for a weather station near you
WeeWx station map
Weather System Log
2024January18 - updated page to remove many old/bad/changed links
2023Nov03 - still running well. have not replaced lithium AA batteries in weather station yet. Now running internet weather station for over 21 years!
2006 December 25 - installed new Oregon wmr968 wireless weather station in and
around the observatory. The white things are the three sensors (rain, wind, air) and
their solar panels/transmitters. The white bucket is used to shield the
temperature probe, along with the observatory walls, from direct sunlight.
The nearer dome is the first allsky camera,
still under development. The farther dome is the new CONCAM
camera still under development.
2002 October 31 - created weatherunderground account to upload weather data to with a station ID of IONTARIO51 and first data is uploaded
For questions or comments about this page /weather/
contact us at kim or kevin (at) starlightcascade (dot) ca
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