Weather station for Wild West Watersports
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:02 am
A new weather station was installed yesterday at the Water's Edge restaurant at the Harbour Quay in Port Alberni. Thank you Thom at the Water's Edge, make sure you visit for a beer after you sail.
Thank you Matt at Wild West Watersports for climbing on the roof to install the bits. The weather station is very close to the old one, but in better wind and it should be more reliable. It does look like it fills in later at the Quay compared to Wild West and it looks like it's a bit lighter, so it won't be perfect, but it's a start.
10 minute updates are on the Latest reports page (AlberniHQ).
1 minute updates are here:
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/bwd1/in ... &headers=1
15 minute updates are sent to the Weather Underground:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... IBRITISH49
We don't have real time winds or the fancy summary pages like the other weather stations. This is because I would need access to the router to grab the data every few seconds and this would be too much to ask. We can do this when we eventually move the weather station to the Wild West site.
dave
Thank you Matt at Wild West Watersports for climbing on the roof to install the bits. The weather station is very close to the old one, but in better wind and it should be more reliable. It does look like it fills in later at the Quay compared to Wild West and it looks like it's a bit lighter, so it won't be perfect, but it's a start.
10 minute updates are on the Latest reports page (AlberniHQ).
1 minute updates are here:
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/bwd1/in ... &headers=1
15 minute updates are sent to the Weather Underground:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... IBRITISH49
We don't have real time winds or the fancy summary pages like the other weather stations. This is because I would need access to the router to grab the data every few seconds and this would be too much to ask. We can do this when we eventually move the weather station to the Wild West site.
dave
Thanks Dave for making the trip, ordering gear, donating time and energy, fuel and patience. 
Any idea when the station might be back online?