SCGO Weather Station

Welcome to Starlight Cascade Observatory Weather Station Project!
Near Yarker, Ontario, Canada. (44.22.39 N 76.45.47 W 151M Elevation)
Page Created: 2003 September 03
Page Last Updated: 2025 October 101
SCGO Home * Allsky1 * Allsky2 * RadioJove * SuperSID * Weather

Acurite Pro (model 06004) (2019 November 27-present )
outside temp barometer humidity wind
  • Weewx Generated Weather Summary
  • PWS Weather station ID: YARKER1
  • Weather Underground PWS IONTARIO51 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:
    poes  

    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